Final Fantasy XIV’s healer problem and how it’s kind of unsolvable

[Billythepancake]

Spending nearly 100% of your GCD on DPS skills is really why an overhaul on the role is necessary. To me you shouldn’t be spending more than half, but obviously the game isn’t designed that way. Just hope with the healer overhaul they get closer to that

That's not just a healer overhaul they'd need to do, they'd need to rework the entire game from ARR to now to change that. It's way easier to just make healers work in the current system than to try and change both healers and the system. Especially with things like Covid slowing progression down on top of all the things they have to add into a new expansion an overhaul of that level is not feasible, unless you want literally nothing else in 6.0.