The state of healers is affecting everyone

[EaMett]

I think healers quitting is more of a earnest desire than it is a reality. Truth is healer mains, like all other mains do things outside of their chosen role. They craft, gather, decorate their houses, level other jobs, go solo, etc. It's getting late into 5.0 now, and most are waiting for 5.1 content to continue their progression. The few healers you're seeing around now, are likely either catching up, are casual, or they are alts to those who normally main a DPS or tank.

The actual state of healers really isn't that bad. Not so bad that we're in the middle of some kind of healer revolt. Some healers are still sour because of changes to AST and SCH, but for the most they've adjusted and have taken their healers to max level and into the current raid tier. Once an expansion is out, a player can continue to cry about the changes, or find a way to adjust and provide constructive feedback. Or play something else. Either way, it won't be until next expansion that major changes happen to jobs.

I mean, this thread is full of healers that have stopped playing that role. Also the state of static recruitment has been going through a dry spell of healers ever since slightly before the expansion (short of whm which there seem to be a decent amount of atm). And the healers you do find generally don't have logs past the current tier (aka weren't healers or even around during SB raids) so usually have limited raiding experience.
A lot of us who stuck around don't enjoy the changes but did so because the role suits us or we already had a static. All in all considering these past 4 years they've made changes that consistently go against what we've been wanting, we surely are going to whine until something is done. Even if that's in 2 years. Though I'm sure in 2 years they'll find another way of going against what people have been asking.. again.

Edit: also the changes aren't so bad if you're new or not really optimizing your class. As soon as you start optimizing it's a big slap in the face compared to what we had before. Went from managing many aspects on sch, from weave window timers (miasma II), multiple dots (significantly diff from handling a single dot), micromanaging a fairy, melee placement for miasma II, shadowflare you had to time/place correctly. It's a lot we lost (thank god they gave us ED back, dunno what on earth they were thinking)