Quote Originally Posted by HappyHubris View Post
This interviews have at least confirmed that horrible healing is a deliberate decision instead of an oversight.

People think that more time and engagement will push changes, but this game is 5 major releases in and seeing it's most success of all time with glare spam. They're not going to rock the boat for a fraction of a fraction of players. For all we know, for every obsessed optimizer in Savage fights there are two lazy healers happy to be along for the ride.

We should just move on instead of acting like battered spouses and holding out hope that the game will change in our favor.
I think to bear in mind is that, maybe with the exception of WHM the core of the healer complaints have been in Shadowbringers with some in Stormblood, at least from an enjoyment perspective. In ARR I was a very happy healer, in HW I was a very happy healer, in SB I think the first symptoms showed but weren't make or break and ShB was the point of collapse. Looking at EW one the one hand it doesn't look like they've learned their lesson and then on the other hand, there's signs of them making an effort to consider our complaints and have at least made clear their thought process and what issues they have. And also, whether they have learned their lesson this time around is contingent on how the healing requirements match the toolkits.

So whilst I can happily say "they should have done this and they should have done that" because I have, but I can look at how things went for other jobs who received the similar relationship and see that we are in position both MNK and MCH have been in.

On the one hand I can think positively in that, "okay, maybe they will be convinced to make the right steps and shown signs of it, so we mat end up getting the treatment."
On the other, realistically speaking, if they are going to give us something meaningful then we would be looking at 7.0 and that feels too far away. That is if they don't pleasantly surprised us with something unexpected in EW and go against their healer track record.