I want to clarify that I don't really mind the changes to DPS as much as other people, although I agree that leveling/ dungeons/ fates/ beast tribe quests and more content will be a lot more boring with the changes to DPS actions.

I mostly play casual content and I main SCH, occasionally doing extreme but not savage. SCH already had a few problems that were very specific and most people didn't care about them and treated them as not important since they mostly happened in casual content.

-For example, if you are doing a raid and your party has 2 SCH, and the boss does a bunch of raid-wide damage back to back, the Scholars will struggle to heal it since the shields of their Succor's don't stack. Other healers don't have this problem. WHM has Medica and Cure 3, AST has Helios but SCH doesn't have a no gimmick GCD AOE heal. SCH's aoe heals either waste half their potency on a shield, consume a non-mp resource, or have a cooldown. In other words we have an equivalent of Aspected Helios and Medica 2, but we don't have a Medica or Helios. In situations where you aren't on voice chat with your co-healer and they are a SCH too, this can be very annoying.

-Even if you can speak to your co-healer, your co-healer can't know what the fairy AI is thinking and who it's going to use Embrace on next, this is very annoying. And now they are making it so that the Fairy casts Embrace, but the SCH has absolutely no control over who the heal goes to. From what I saw, Seraph also has a 200 potency single target heal/shield that the player can just not target at all. The only way to make the fairy do what you want is to use a resource, or the use a cooldown.

These things may not sound like too important, especially if you don't play SCH, but if this wasn't the case, the job would be so much more fun to play.

They have to make dungeons and other casual content enjoyable by healers as well, but it doesn't seem like they are doing that. I think they are going in a very wrong direction with SCH this expansion. Even some of the action icons look lazy, like the fairy from aetherpact icon was cropped and pasted on all fairy actions.

If it was up to me I would keep Bane and Shadowflare and remove maybe remove Emergency Tactics and replace it with a normal aoe heal. I would rework Fey Union as well. I think it is really silly that the only reliable method of getting your fairy to heal a specific party member uses up a resource that you only get 3 of every 45 seconds.