Healer design is still terrible and I'm tired of apologizing for it.

[RinaShinomiya]

I personally haven't played since ARR but i did dip into healers back in Stormblood and i really liked AST and SCH back then. 5.0 rework sucked for these two imo. I still haven't gotten over how much the 5.0 made me hate Scholar. WHM was the only healer who got better with it, purely because WHM was rubbish in Stormblood (pretty glam tho) but even WHM lost Aero 3 for no reason at all. I will probably never understand what was wrong with each healer having a second AoE DoT. It's not great DPS gameplay but it gave us at least something more to do than just manage 1 dot every 30s and spam a nuke. OG Healer Stance might've been flawed but imagine if they refined it into a proper healer gameplay featuring a job gauge and everything.

I do not believe that having a Diet Coke Black mage gameplay system for WHM, with Astral and Umbral stances increasing / reducing MP costs, would be a bad idea. OGCD heals never cost MP + WHM could still keep the lillies for more free heals. Lucid dreaming feels like a crutch for "we don't wanna think of a proper MP system" rather than a actual part of our toolkit.