Raising healing requirements for newer content alone won't also improve older content

[BooPoo]

I don't get it. Everything you said is kinda true but none of it contradicts my points?

There are certain "tankbuster" like crits or mechanics that cannot be missed...just like FFXIV.

Yes. But not to the extreme where you have to constantly spam healing spells like in WoW. Please don't assume you're the only person that has played the most popular MMO for the past 15 years.

And WoW healing classes have entire damage specs that can be instantly swapped into for leveling, DPSing, PVP, or whatever.

Yes. And do you think that is a good design? In a role playing game, you never see any holy/disc priest or resto druid outside of instances in the open world? If I want to play a disc priest. Then I'll play the disc priest. I do not want to be forced into Shadow just so that I can function independently.

We have a close example of it in 14. Imagine that you're a SCH main but you can only play summoner for MSQ/Fate/Sidequesting/Bozja because healing classes deal almost less than 10% of DPS damage. Even assuming the gears are shared, that is terrible design. Some people play for class aesthetics, fantasies etc. and they need to be respected. Blizzard certainly does not if you'd look at how different the gameplay/aesthetic is between those "specs" that are essentially just different classes with a few shared abilities.

Pretending that FFXIV healers have it better with one nuke, one DoT, and one AoE is sad. I don't get why FFXIV players have this huge inferiority complex about a game they never tried.

Again I've stated that ffxiv healers have their own problems, namely no real DPS rotation, but the concept of hybrid healer is objectively superior because it offers more gameplay potential to us. RPG games are not just about instanced raids/dungeons. Every class needs offensive capabilities in a world where the basic gameplay for every character is to kill monsters. "Worst" case if healers get more DPS abilities in the future, you're welcome to just... not use them?

Please don't assume most of us never played WoW healers. I did, and they sucked.

I would much rather need to heal a lot than spam glare over and over.

Sure. I would rather juggle between healing and a semi DPS rotation, why not make that an option? SGE is a good step but it's still too conservative in terms of DPS abilities.