Dear SE, I am a Healer

[Deceptus]

do you realize the only way to change this is to make healing more difficult?

Yes

Point being, do you think the healer population as a whole wants a more difficult healing role?

Yes, even though healing is already the most difficult role in the game.

What about the overall population? would people be ok dying more often in duties due to the healer?

Might force people to finally use self heals, or self mitigation. Almost every single job has them. How many SAM/MNK/DRG's use BloodBath, or Second Wind? Cause I sure as heck don't see it. Melee or Ranged sue Feint or Apoc reliably? Nope.

How will this effect lower geared healers as well? Being at item level cap, healing is easy but being at minimum ilevel, its a bit riskier.

Not if you're fairly competent.

SE has repeatedly said they design content without healer and tank DPS in mind. I dispute that by how close many of the kills have been due to healer and tank DPS contributing so much.

I love doing my DPS as a healer but that's only because healing is otherwise so dang boring and not needed currently.