Never healed before in my life in a game until now and I gotta say....

[Rongway]

I mean, I guess my point there was.... why give me a dozen abilities at level 30 including a buff that adds regen to specific spells... and then not give me at least one of said spells?

It's a vestige of the HW/SB days when Sects buffed your healing magic potency and reduced enmity generation for all spells, in addition to the Aspect-specific effects. General buff to healing at 30, then Aspected Benefic a few levels later.

That's why Diurnal Sect feels anachronous now that the Sects strictly only add regens or shields to Aspected and Celestial actions.

previously warrior got tank stance at Lv30, which gives you the Beast Gauge... but you don't get the skill Inner Beast (ie. the thing you spend gauge power on) until Lv35 so the gauge just sat there and you couldn't do anything with it.

Similarly, once upon a time, WARs got Defiance at 30 and could start building stacks of Wrath to give themselves a scaling buff that affected them generally, and then a few levels later they got an action to spend their Wrath stacks, resetting the buff to 0 but dealing a big attack.