The idea that we need to DPS must go.

[MerlinCross]

That wasn't meant to come across as showing someone up or even as an attack and I apologise if it did. I just wanted to make clear that even if there are cases when you could theoretically hold Holy for stunning at specific times it was never good practice, let alone mandatory.
Not in the past, when many things worked a bit differently and even less so now that you can simply faceroll through dungeons by burning everything down.

It's as you said: the only reason for a WHM to not use Holy is people needing healing that oGCDs won't cut or mechanics forcing them to move out of melee range.
Although I've seen more players simply eating an aoe in trash pulls to keep casting if it doesn't give a damage down, paralysis or silence.

I was trying to humor the idea of "Hmm IS there a reason to hold it?" And... no. Not even with all the backflipping I had to do to come up with a reason to so.

Back on main topic; if the idea of damage from Healers is to...go, and we just get stripped down to the bare minimum(Hmmm how much MORE can we lose?), how are we to level? On a whim, I tried leveling WHM in some fates and it was just.... boring. Like so boring. Let me be clear, fates isn't the most engaging of content but WOW it was threatening to make me just turn the game off. And these days I can't picture trying to go through Story with this kit.