Healing is now a state of permanent hatred.

[Brandedblade]

The only healing ability in SB's SCH that was truly lossless was Eos' Whispering Dawn. Everything else costed a weaving slot and/or Aetherflow.
In ShB, everything costs weave slots (and there are less of them available) but there are more Aetherflow-free healing abilities: Fey Blessing, Recitation and Seraph.

Comparing the two, the only net loss would be on Whispering Dawn, which now costs at worst 80 potency to weave. Everything else seems strictly better resource-wise.

Targetable Embrace that was about double the potency of current embrace was an IMMENSE amount of free healing even factoring in what was said about Indom and excog. Even saying that the point I'm trying to make is that technically all healing on scholar has a cost now irregardless of how weak or how powerful is. And as far as I'm concerned that's a good tradeoff. The only truly free healing sch has now is a very weak random embrace spam that I'm honestly surprised they didnt remove out right.

Also Fey Blessing isnt free. It technically costs an aetherflow to activate. While the aetherflow can be any ability yes. You still have to use a stack to even activate it and a weave slot to command your fairy to use it.