Quote Originally Posted by Adeacia View Post
Well possibly because the players always seem to say: "You are forbidden to press any key that doesn't do damage. If you dare to use a gcd heal you are a terrible healer who should quit the game."

I'm obviously exaggerating there but more dps options on healers will just cause everyone to complain if they aren't used basically 100% of the time.

Also, people always say they are just pressing 11111 on healer. Not the case for me at all. Never was as my dps skill isn't on 1.
It's good that you are aware of your exaggeration because that poor straw man has been beaten to death and back. Give it a break.
Friendly reminder that we not only had a lot more dps options in ARR/ HW but also Cleric Stance while far less oGCDs - and for some reason it did not lead to players demanding you to perfectly manage everything. That is a strawman people love to make up to excuse bad design.

On the contrary: the easier something is, the less excusable it is to not do it and so people are more likely to want to see you do it (not demand it, mind you. Huge difference).
You have full mobility on a physical ranged. Naturally people want to see you press buttons while moving instead of only moving or only dpsing.
You only have one dot with 30s duration. Naturally people want to see you use it.
However neither a phys ranged not dpsing while moving nor a healer not keeping their dot up will get called out in casual content barring some extreme (and quite possibly reportable) cases that have less to do with "the community demanding it" and more with someone probably encountering the occasional a-hole.