If you thought the healer DPS debate would change with the change...

[Melorie]

UAnd its not about overhealing. It's about the fact that you should not, for any reason, be trying to *force* a healer to dps. It should be up to them. They don't *need* to do anything but try their best to keep their team alive

Yet no one said you should prioritize DPS, just that it's very clear that there is room for DPS while healing and if you play as a healer you know that.

You think that people should stand waiting for others to get hit because you can't force someone to DPS? Yeah, no. I won't do that with my teammates. If you want to keep doing nothing - because it is a FACT that this is what you'll end up doing in a lot of content, even new content, fine. But it's not surprising that people would find this stance of you very lazy. If you want to help the party you'll do your best, and in FFXIV, do your best as a healer is not using interesting buffs, shields, debuffs on your downtime because we don't have it - it is DPSing, like it or not.

And yet, she's right. IF, and that a big if, we know it won't happen, but if it did, we'd see probably an increase of healers in DF because we wouldn't have to put up with the toxic behavior of other players throwing their "ideal" on to a healer.

I doubt it. After all, you would be stand by without doing nothing for minutes in at least any content that's not recent. Who wants to play a class like that?
If you're busy healing, it is quite clear. If you don't have MP, people can also see that. There will be always rude and arrogant people on DF, that doesn't justify supporting stupid ideas such as "lock dps buttons" unless you want to watch netflix while playing.