The reason we healers DPS

[Elgeron]

Completely correct, sorry there. The do have gained new DPS skills, but it sucks that I think they haven't received the much needed utility they should have, and the lilly system while an improvement, I still think could be more fun. It is a good idea that it interacts with healing, but it does so out of GCD skills, which aren't the best option and they still focus on spaming one spell. I wish they had some more interesting mechanichs. There are certaintly many white spells in past games that could be added (Hastega, introduce Stoneskin and protect for mitigation, maybe make WHM more about pDPS and give it interesting skill that both hurt and heal companions or offer some kind of support).

Im aware the changes will cause bad healers which, over 70 percent of the healer population consists of, will make them slightly better healers?

But what are you basing this of? WHM and AST are still mostly the same, how does the SCH's dps nerf affect them? Card do not directly affect healing, is just means that buffing is easier, but it does nothing to solve the issue you have pointed out. The only way they are going to become easier is because we now have so many new healing skills, but we could have receive those without so many mechanichs being stripped away from us.