Can Healer Balance Survive a 4th Healer?

[ty_taurus]

Usually, I'm a huge balance fiend. I love things to be balanced, and it's something I think about a lot for a lot of games, but FF14 is a game where I feel like I've shifted to care about balance less. We've seen what militant fixation on balance has done to the healers as of Shadowbringers, and you know what? I don't really care if a 4th healer ends up breaking the balance. What's worse?

Having a meta where some healers are valued above others for endgame content while the ones less favored but still not only able to do the content, but realistically won't be barred from it?
Or refusing to add new content or develop the existing healers in different ways out of fear of breaking that balance?

I'm not saying balance isn't important, because it is, but I can't help but hate the "I don't want a 4th healer until they fix the current healers" argument with a searing rage. 14 has been incredibly good at ensuring all jobs are capable within a decent margin of clearing any content.

[Deceptus]

Or refusing to add new content or develop the existing healers in different ways out of fear of breaking that balance?

Sadly, this is where healers are in FFXIV. While other jobs are moving forward, the healer role got reduced to square one.