A (Probably Terrible) Idea to Help SCH class identity

[YusiKha]

... It's undeniable that SCHs fall behind WHM and AST in both damage and healing...
... They now have the lowest healer DPS...

Only when alongside a WHM, actually.
SCH+AST is roughly equal to WHM+AST, and both pairs are used in speedkills. The issue is that White Mage and Scholar don't play nicely together.

SCH should be the healer with the "burst damage" window

Scholar had a damaging identity already. Damage-over-time effects.
In Heavensward, Scholar had access to 5 DoTs (Bio, Bio 2, Miasma, Aero, and Shadowflare was a spell) which were all stronger than Broil. (WHM & AST only had 3 DoTs, 1 of which was solely a weaving tool)

Now if you want to look in older games for inspiration instead, Scholars typically had a form of 'Scan' which would tell you foes' stats, HP, weaknesses.
Scan lifted wholesale wouldn't work so well in FFXIV, and would be changed into a personal buff or enemy debuff (in fact, it may be Chain Strategem already).

Both things could be combined, so that Scholar had multiple running DoTs which seeked out weaknesses in the enemy, which could then be activated for a personal damage boost (think BLM Thunderclouds), or further party buffing.