What do you guys think is the cause of severe lack of Tank users?

[BarretOblivion]

In case anyone thought tanks were being too reasonable, raising them to "12%" based on the pretty bars requires anywhere from a 20-34% buff to Tank potency based on which metric you care to talk about, or a reduction of non-tank damage by approximately 24.5%, or a combination of the two.

Okay, that's fine. Cause Healers kicked and screamed last expansion and the beginning of this expansion to do more damage. (Dealt with enough greedy healers in our static to get rid of that I am sick of the 'elite' healers). I think it would be fine to nerf them down, or heck just balance next tier around tank damage being better. FFS people are still struggling to kill Shiva if they don't do an uptime strat for Light Rampart with no deaths.

[Satarn]

Okay, that's fine. Cause Healers kicked and screamed last expansion and the beginning of this expansion to do more damage. (Dealt with enough greedy healers in our static to get rid of that I am sick of the 'elite' healers). I think it would be fine to nerf them down, or heck just balance next tier around tank damage being better. FFS people are still struggling to kill Shiva if they don't do an uptime strat for Light Rampart with no deaths.

Where and when? The main complaints about healer dps, both during SB and early SHB have been about specific jobs(WHM in SB and AST at SHB launch) and in comparison to other healers, not other roles. The current requests for more dps skills have nothing to do with output - healer dps hasn't gone down with removal of skills, rather the opposite(but mostly due to adding even more ogcd heals, not direct buffs, which is another issue entirely) - but with gameplay engagement/complexity.

Healers pushing for more dps, sometimes to the point of chadding their co-heal or letting people die, doesn't have anything to do with asking for their damage to be buffed - they're just attempts at optimization, even if at times bad ones.
Do you also think that a BLM standing in AoE and dying to finish a cast, is asking for their job/role to be buffed by doing so?

I think there is some merit to people asking for tanks to have higher contribution to total rDPS, or healers less(mostly by just forcing them to gcd heal a bit), but so far you're specifically just pulling weird, made up arguments out of your behind.