My thoughts on Scholar since 4.05.

[Spiroglyph]

I think that's what he meant, though, with the identity crisis - we used to focus more on preventive healing than reactive (thanks OP, fixed! ) healing.

As for your tl;dr - yeah, the clunkiness was always there, specially with fairy AI; it's more noticeable now because the job itself isn't OP enough to hide these flaws.