Healing is now a state of permanent hatred.

[KDSilver]

If anything the loss of extreme micromanagement and Quickened Aetherflow was a necessary evil to bring sch back down to a reasonable level. What made it so powerful in previous expansions was the sheer amount of healing it could generate without loosing damage.

In ShB, he gained
- Strong regen on soil, making it both mitigating and restoring health
- Forced crit on whatever you like, especially excog/indom
- Seraph with 2 charges of aoe shield and the fairy casting stronger version of embrace with shields
- Fey blessing, basically aoe heal

And you say that that what made it powerful is its healing output without loosing damage..?
It's mostly the same from this point. Scholar became a more oGCD powerhouse.

As scholar, you'd always have to weave those abilites in someway, the tradeoff being a slight loose due to clipping with broil or weaving with miasma II or currently Ruin II.
If anything, scholar from a healing perspective became more powerful with minimal lose. You can now even run all around the arena and still do damage to a correct degree (200 is way better than 100 or 80 like in HW/SB)

Gutting the "extreme micromanagement" was not necessary for that.