Ive no faith in SE/Yoshi-P when comes to balancing healers

[HyoMinPark]

I can tell you don't play all 3 healers in any kind of setting where balance matters.

He's clearly referring the pure HPS that a WHM can achieve. Sure, in an optimal setting SCH and AST have enough oGCDs to heal through the majority of damage that will come out in any content... but not all content is an optimal setting. Progging with SCH and WHM is easier in most situations because of the potential for huge burst healing on demand which is something the other healers just don't have. Yes, in talking about Cure III. I'm talking about Assize every 45 seconds. Plenary Indulgence. Asylum. Benediction. I'm talking about the best MP management in the game. Try keeping the party up through big damage on SCH when your cohealer goes down and you don't have Indom.

Pure HPS doesn’t matter if the content doesn’t call for it. If a fight only needs 1,000,000 worth of damage healed, why are you going to bring a healer that can heal 10,000,000 worth of damage and call that “utility”? Even with your premise of progression, groups don’t prog forever. The outgoing damage in this game simply isn’t high enough for raw healing to be better than oGCD healing.

Cure III really isn’t as great as you are trying to sell it. It requires players to be stacked together in a far smaller radius than its closest equivalents (Earthly Star and Indom), in addition to its heavy MP cost (where as those cost 0 MP). Assize is also not a healing cooldown in its current iteration. It is a damage button/MP management button, and not much else. Sitting on it waiting for healing results in lost casts per fight, which is inherently inefficient.

It does matter if you enter PF for an Ex Primal and after people see you also got AST up to 70 ask you to change jobs, and get salty if you don't (Yes, that would be against ToS by now if they "Force" you to do so, but even if they ask nicely -- great feelings around if you don't...).

I've healed every EX Primal this expansion - a lot of them on WHM. Never had anyone "get salty" and demand that I switch to AST/SCH. Even after I've done a few runs on AST. This is hardly a pervasive issue.