Honestly, I kind of hated cleric stance during Heavensward. If I ever pressed the cleric stance button, that meant it was 7.5 seconds before I could heal someone. Granted, it doesn't sound so bad now---maybe I've gotten better, and besides, it'd be more like 5 seconds today because there are more instant-casts---but at the time it was terrifying.

My solution was to just never use cleric stance, which a) made me feel kind of useless, and b) was discouraging because I wasn't able to use the job's full toolkit.

Other complexity-adding mechanics, like DoT-management, never bothered me because I could learn them gradually. As I got used to things, the uptime on my DoTs increased. But there was never an all-or-nothing, take-the-plunge moment like with cleric stance.

I also just kind of hate stance-dancing.

That said, I'm not totally opposed to them bringing it back just for white mage, as long as they didn't also do something that made me hate scholar, while leaving astrologian the way it is now. As long as I have one I like.

I'm just saying, cleric stance was never a mechanic I personally enjoyed.