The really depressing part is that telling people to go and play a different game genuinely does appear to be the only solution that actually brings results.

SE have demonstrated this repeatedly right from the launch of ARR:

Remember the communities stance on Warrior in 2.0? The community said it was too vulnerable compared to PLD. Yoshida insisted it was fine and that we were playing it wrong. The community responded by pretty much excluding it from everything from Titan HM upwards. SE quickly responded with a raft of changes and fixes to it's mitigation and survivability.

AST was considered to be pretty well balanced in Midas with maybe a slight edge over WHM with it's only failing being Noct underperforming vs SCH that was all conquering at that point. However for whatever reason it still wasn't seeing mainstream play. SE responded by buffing it hard enough to pretty much wipe WHM out of Creator Savage.

It could be argued that SCH's state for 4.0 was more of the same. Whilst most were angry at WHM, I was pointing out that SCH was looking like it was going to land in a far worse situation and frankly, any experienced healer on the QA team (assuming it was QA'd at all) should have drawn the same conclusion in either Dungeons or Savage. SB launched, SCH arrived exactly as the preview suggested and they went extinct in Deltascape Savage. Again forcing SE to react with probably the biggest set of mid tier panic buffs and bandaids this game has ever seen.

It's like this strange mix of arrogance combined with insufficient resources and raw man hours to either innovate healers in their own way or even just steal ideas from other MMOs and tune them to fit this game.

So yeah. Playing something else or even simply playing a DPS in the meantime genuinely does seem to be the answer even if it is a bit of an asinine one.

I'll be straight back on either WHM or AST once the next raid tier lands, but outside of raiding with my static, I'm straight back on Dancer and will continue to do so as things stand irrespective of queue times or PF slots.