I just had an enlightenment regarding Healers in Shadowbringers

[HyperiusUltima]

In this regard the developers took absolutely, 100% the laziest way out they could.

Instead of balancing the two fairies and giving them more of an identity (Selene the buff or debuff fairy?) They just made her a reskin of Eos.

Well, when you're attempting to design unique decisions, it kinda comes down to not preference, but which is better overall in an optimized setting. Sure, people have run Selene and succeeded before, but they've locked their progression with the Fairy because of the Healer Balance that kept getting worse as SCH kept getting powercrept into supremacy. Even if they had to make it a skin, as I said before they now allow them breathing room to expand on the Fairy in later expansions, should they wish to.

[Kalise]

Well, when you're attempting to design unique decisions, it kinda comes down to not preference, but which is better overall in an optimized setting. Sure, people have run Selene and succeeded before, but they've locked their progression with the Fairy because of the Healer Balance that kept getting worse as SCH kept getting powercrept into supremacy. Even if they had to make it a skin, as I said before they now allow them breathing room to expand on the Fairy in later expansions, should they wish to.

To be honest... While SCH is copying SMN in getting a new Demi summon (Seraph), they could have also copied SMN in having summons being instant.

In fact, instant cast summons makes way more sense for SCH than it does for SMN. Since SMN is 99.99% of the time Ifrit 24/7 with Garuda being used for Dungeons because AoE for mass pulls while lulTitan remains lulTitan.

Meanwhile, even with the current Fairies, SCH can actually get some use from swapping between them. Like, I've used Selene a bunch in Eureka because instant, AoE Esuna is quite useful. For example when fighting Dux in Pyros multiple people often get hit by Shock and get paralyzed. Or farming for things like Luigi/Penny and the trash apply that massive damage Poison to the tank.

All they had to do was alter Silent Dusk (Since CC is worthless...) and Fey Wind (Since they want to tone down rDPS boosts) for other niche utilities and then people could easily swap between the 2 forms during a fight to access different utility skills.

Since, trying to make them "Equally good" is not needed if you don't have to sit through a cast to swap. Especially when their actions are on 60/120s CD's so having them constantly at your side isn't necessary (Both have the same Embrace skill)

Just a matter of dividing up SCH's utility between the 2 Fairies and you're good to go.

Though, instead they just deleted a bunch of SCH's skills and copied Demi's from SMN (Would have been way more interesting to have just Lily and swap between Eos/Selene. Heck, you could have even had some other alterations, such as Selene shielding with Embrace/Fey Union while Eos healed like normal. Especially given that Seraph is literally just Lily but with more potency...)