Year after year, the healer discussion is the same around this topic.

Players who desperately want only to focus on healing will reach for any rationale to justify not dealing any damage. It's a selfish choice not to DPS at all as healer, but at least a few people are honest about their reasons and admit that they are either lazy or refusing to DPS because it doesn't fit with their personal vision of what the role should be.

I think many players fall into the "common sense" group of attacking when they have time to do so, because standing around doing nothing is just plain counterintuitive.

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And this is EXACTLY what Square Enix said would lead to them removing support for damage meters.

And you know what ......I say go for it. When damage meters are completely banned maybe Healers can be healers again.
Amusingly, with the broad removal of enmity management tools from most classes, players now have a much better idea of how DPS are doing relative to each other just by observing the aggro rankings in the party list, assuming no deaths or other shenanigans. Healers are harder to gauge since healing builds enmity as well, but the general notion of paying attention to other players' performance isn't going away anytime soon.