I'm not sure why you think slide casting is irrelevant to a question about Square's playstyle philosophy? A lot of us want more weaving windows and intuitive play that allows us to always be casting but what if they don't even want us to always be casting? Have you noticed that healers are the only role that don't get movement tools? We are expected to walk or run everywhere while tanks and dps get dashes, disengages, and teleports. Even stationary casters like BLM get tons of mobility options. Clearly slide casting is optimal but I'm more interested in what they expect from a healer because this dictates what skills we get in the future. Seeing how Scholar got pruned for this expansion makes me really worried about their design intentions. I personally don't find this current expansion fun to heal at all.