Mr.Happy Interview with Yoshi P

[Enla]

Soil Mage and deleting ED did not put Scholar at a true disadvantage, eventually they made the job pound sand.

Nothing will ever come close to the scorn that White Mage faced at the end of Heavensward and beginning of Stormblood.

SCH was pretty much unplayable at the start of Stormblood. I'm not sure what you seem to be remembering but it was a bloody mess to even heal in dungeons, let alone higher end content. We had to get buffed almost on the next available patch because it was such a mess.