Honestly, it just kind of feels like SE has no idea what to do with white mage so they just ripped the guts out and made it cross-class and tacked on this lily system. Esuna and protect are both now taking up one of 5 CC slots instead of being default abilities. There's a lot of lost ground for us to make up, and a drop in cooldown (which we can't even use selectively) isn't really enough to make up for the loss.

I have to say it's a little hard to take any positives out of these changes so far. I really hope we're missing something and that when Stormblood officially arrives things straighten themselves out.