Healer Unhappiness exists on the Jap Healing Forums as well.

[Crushnight]

"Tanks in FFXIV are often utilized in either a main tank or off-tank role. However, we currently have an odd number of tank jobs, and we felt it that it would be easier to balance them moving forward if we had an even number of tanks, which is why we went with gunbreaker in the end.

Moreover, ever since we added astrologian with Heavensward, we have had considerable difficulty in balancing it along with white mage and scholar. Rather than exacerbate a complex situation by adding a fourth healer to the mix, we decided to instead prioritize balancing the three existing healer jobs at this time."

I'am still amazed to read this.
We had 3 tanks and 3 healers, odd numbers in each of this role.
It was hard to balance for both (more for healers), but the solution for tank is to add one more job, but not for healer ?
I think it's maybe the biggest contradiction/non-sens SE have done to justify one of their design choice.

Don't forget that they also felt sch let the other healer they are paired with do all the healing so they can dps, sch was the one doing the most healing out of all 3 healers regardless.

The Devs just have a massive disconnect from their healing community, they design everything around their perceived vision of healers without actually looking at how healers are played, if they did they would have realised by now that content design is directly at odds to their healer vision.

[Maltothoris]

Don't forget that they also felt sch let the other healer they are paired with do all the healing so they can dps, sch was the one doing the most healing out of all 3 healers regardless.

The Devs just have a massive disconnect from their healing community, they design everything around their perceived vision of healers without actually looking at how healers are played, if they did they would have realised by now that content design is directly at odds to their healer vision.

The thing that gets me is that that did happen..............................................................................all the way back during the first half of heavensward. THere was a notion about there being a main healer and an off healer during Gordias and the first half of Midas. However, groups realized it was better to split the burden of healing cause you got more dps out of two healers instead of one with a priority system for healings like Whispering Dawn>Collective>Indom>Aspected Helios for example back then.

This is just a huge disconnect that right that really showed to me they have little idea about how to implement healing.

It’s more or less that they are afraid that astro pushes whm out of bounds in savage too fast. They had some bad memories from StB

I say if anything it makes them rememer heavensward more. There wasn't a single major patch without buffs to astro until 3.5 cause they buffed the heck out of in 3.4 with the 20 percent balance.