Quote Originally Posted by AnotherPerson View Post
SCH having a 2.5 sec GCD is the norm (as is with all healers), but having a 1.5 sec cast time means you can weave an healing oGCD per Broil without paying any DPS tax. This lets you not require using Ruin II to weave, and enables better slidecasting. The pet responsiveness has improved drastically so it's much more reactionary than before. When casting GCD shields, the shields will deploy before your cast time finishes, so you can immediately deploy them on the same GCD without waiting an extra GCD. These are solid improvements to SCH compared to its ShB iteration. These QoLs are very much needed. Endwalker SCH just feels lacking in comparison because it didn't feel like SCH got new toys to really play around with. However, Protraction and Expedient are amazing tools that make SCH's healing toolkit flesh out a lot more than before if people just use them properly.

People are complaining about 1.5 sec cast time being boring, and I do agree it's a very bland take on giving weave windows. The alternative however, if all other healers had 1.5 sec cast windows and SCH had 2.5 sec cast windows? People would be angry for days. :P
People are complaining, because ALL those changes you mentioned, arent expansion worthy changes, but a simple hotfix you would get in a X.05 Patch on a Tuesday morning under normal circumstances. The MNK hotfix in the middle of SHB was bigger than recent SCH changes.
And to add more fuel to the Fire allow me to remind you, that our Lord and Saviour Yoshi P. who saved world hunger and died for our sins, only to be reborn again, straight up said that there isnt much they could have done about SCH, ignoring countless Threads and posts of Feedback.