Dengeki Interview

[EaMett]

It's more a disconnect between the healer playerbase. A portion of the healer playerbase wants to be green dps and another portion the opposite. And since its smarter to appeal to the more casual of the two they make it so healers have less dps spells and lots of downtime, but since the more casual side is more unlikely to do the harder content they make the harder content hit harder and such.

Let me add that it's not necessarily smarter to appeal to the more casual of the two. MMOs have a long history of that going wrong.
It can definitely be a good thing but it's all about where you draw the line.

E12s is the only encounter in the entire patch to come close to their intended goal and you still have a fair bit of pressing 1, 1, 1, 1. But it's a good start.

The catch is that they have a hard limit to how much damage output they can realistically add. They'll never take it up to ultimate levels and ultimates are still a lot of pressing 1, 1, 1, 1. So yeah, like you say. The problem is that they're running on theory.