New healer: Sage. Barrier healer.

[Gemina]

This.

People get worked up about the choice of term "pure healer" thinking the thing implied as therefore "not pure" is DPS. But the context of the two types being pure healer and barrier healer clearly indicates that barriers are the thing that makes them not pure healers because they're not just restoring damage that has already been done.

I've literally been saying this for years now. Not in those exact words, but since the term "pure healer" was being thrown around back before we even had Stormblood, I've been saying that it has been taken completely out of context. Even a "regen healer" isn't necessarily accurate as SCH also has moderate HoT ability. However, with the addition of Sage and pure (regen) healer officially being a thing now, this might go away in 6.0.