"Yeah, I understand the argument. With Dual Cast and the kind of healing they can do. When both healers are down and the Red Mage waltz in and saves the day. But, listen, Summoner players, listen okay? Red Mage can raise, okay? And Black Mage, nothing, okay? That's why we have jobs, okay?"
I have to wonder... if the logic was that SMN should never use their heal spell; why give SMN a heal spell at all?

I mean the entire mantra of 4.0 has been "reduce the clutter, consolidate the skills"; and yet here, one of SMN's precious skill list entries contains a skill that is literally unusable. And this apparently came at the cost of Sustain, which was the SMN's pet heal skill and thus very important and relevant!

If the heal is there on behalf of SCH, why not just add it to the SCH spell list? - It's not like ACN can queue as healer anyway.