Dear SE, I am a Healer

[Fland]

Okay well if not for the role skills, from your experience which skills do people desire from choosing BRD? I'm honestly curious because my experiences are different.

Mostly because of its crit synergy with other jobs, who also have crit buffs and also part of the meta, like DRG and SCH.

Yes there are some groups that prefer to have refresh. But even then we can't really say BRD being chosen for its role skills when it's just refresh and half of the role skills are never being used. SE might as well just give BRD and MCH their own MP regen skill and remove the physical range role skills and it won't even matter.
I hope in ShB if SE does want to emphasize BRD and MCH as the "support" of the group, then they would put the role skills that can actually support the group instead of just a bunch of situational CCs that mostly done by other jobs anyway.