If SCH got Energy Drain back, why not do the same for WHMs?

[Archwizard]

And, again, is that function remotely a necessity? The minimum output of any Lily, even at 0 healing, is a Glare's worth of damage. That's already quite significant and its GCD is damn near necessary for keeping WHM from playing clunkily due to its plethora of oGCDs. If anything we just need more instant casts, not more oGCDs.

As someone who has tended to vastly prefer WHM over all perhaps but late-SB AST, I do have a horse in this race, but I still don't feel an oGCD means of preventing overcapping is at all necessary, especially if give solely as a function.

Save it for next expansion's Growth spell or the like, if we don't ever get anything more druidic, spreading healing to anyone wounded from a party member epicenter, or bouncing variable duration powerful HoTs around the party or whatever.

Not to be pedantic, but by the given logic, one Lily -- as one of four GCDs to fire Misery -- is only 75% of a Glare's worth of damage.

An oGCD dump was only one of the suggestions I made in the OP. I'm fully on-board with all Lily spenders being GCDs, particularly the instant heals we have now, for exactly the reasons you touched on -- weaving the oGCDs we already have, and having tools for mobility and snap healing.
The point of the thread is asking why we don't have a means to dump the resource so we can keep cycling them rather than capping and delaying the Blood Lily, particularly as SCH just got a means to dump the resource when healing is unnecessary.

Also, doesn't Afflatus Rapture already count for "spreading healing"? Or at the very least wouldn't it be easier to just have AffRap be targeted, rather than bloating the kit with another button for exactly the same purpose "but elsewhere"?

And to be honest I wouldn't be terribly surprised if next expansion's growth spell was some kind of multi-Lily dump, like a 3-Lily clone of Benediction ("Afflatus Serenity") or introduction of Reflect ("Afflatus Vigilance"), or even just introducing another attack as a Risk-Reward skill ("Afflatus Wrath").