Playing SCH is so awkward and bad

[HyoMinPark]

I just dont see this being 'more interesting'. It runs into the idea that this more engaging simply because its more to do.

I think you missed my point: for some of us, “more engaging” is synonymous with “more interesting”.

Another healer example: ShB got rid of Aero III on WHM. WHM has never been the more complex healer, but I liked having two separate DoTs to manage. It kept me engaged; it kept me attentive to my DoT timers, and it also just simply gave me another button to press that wasn’t Stone IV (not to mention, it was good for both single-target and AOE scenarios). Being more engaged in keeping track of timers and having more to press made the gameplay more interesting simply because it wasn’t so monotonous as Dia > Glare > Glare > Glare > Glare > Glare ad nauseam until Dia is about to fall off. Monotony is what healers are complaining about when it comes to their neutered damaging toolkit—and since the developers won’t actually give us MORE healing in encounters, damage is the only other thing we have.

For another example unrelated to healers: ShB BRD has been simplified and lost all of its SB complexity when it comes to snapshotting buffs and manipulating Repertoire for increased proc chances and DPS gains. Keeping track of Chain Strat and Battle Litany usages and manipulating our DoTs was a more engaging aspect of the job—which made it more interesting for BRDs that want to optimize and push out those minuscule bits of damage. When they announced the changes to Repertoire in the pre-expac PLL, a lot of BRDs that enjoy optimization were really unhappy with it because it simplified the job, made it more boring, and made higher levels of performance far less rewarding.