Healer is in need because they didn't add a Healer since 3.0

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Why would you want a 4th healer when they have issues with 3?
So we have 2 working healers and 2 broken ones?

Why would you want a Xth role when they have issues with the other Y amount?
So we have Z broken roles?

This literally applies to all roles ever.
Its always been possible to fix the healers since day1.
As another forum poster pointed out, the reason they dont fix the healers, is because the 4 job designers dont actually play/main healers.
They are more interested in new jobs, which ever role they may be, and the DPS jobs.

Anything they do with tanks/healers, is just surface level effort. (They did try with 2.0 though, i'll give them that, despite all of 2.0 tank/healer issues they had)
Right now, the answer is to over simplify the 2 roles, until it becomes extremely easy to balance them. (and even then, they still seem to miss the mark sometimes.)

SE isnt actually meaning "We didnt add a healer because theyre too hard to balance". Thats just lip service.
They said the same thing about healers and tanks before, and yet added a 4th tank. Yoshida even said he looked at making DNC a healer, and decided DPS was more interesting. (He also shows stubbornness in certain ways, when it comes to going against the normal, such as healers in aiming gear)
He wouldnt have even considered DNC as a healer, if he truly felt there shouldnt be a 4th healer.

If anything, I think he MOSTLY designed DNC as a healer, but with so many issues that cropped up, they tried to salvage it, by making it a DPS.
Controller users need to press up/down to target party members, upwards of a maximum of 4 times. So GCDs cant be too short. (we have no 2s GCD healer for example) oGCDs cant be too many either. So DNC steps were put on the GCD to counter this. But now they as a healer, have to rely on oGCD to heal during steps.... but that goes back to, "too many button inputs for controller users". This is most likely why they scrapped DNC as a healer, despite being the only DPS with a rather in depth heal option, and even quest line referencing their heals, despite being such a minor thing about their actual role.

Yoshida said the same stuff about BLU, only for it to not be true. He just sumerizes the process, and tries to phrase it in a way that seems like its going to upset the least number of people.
No matter how yoshida phrased it, ppl were gonna be pissed at the lack of the 4th healer. And he ran out of time to make the work around, that wasnt just "make it a DPS".