Honest question for people dissatisfied with WHM:

[Dhalya]

Wonder how many sprouts who struggled the first time in Vale realize that the three other healers all have aoe regen by that level? In dungeon with two bosses that inflict large raidwide damage with high consistency. Unsure what Square is even thinking some of the times! The "newbie friendly" starter healer is actually toughest healer to play at 50. Makith no sense that does.

Please just stop bringing up FFXIV terrible leveling experience and imbalance of jobs at low level as arguments of difficulty -.- Yes I have no idea why Sage gets aoe skill at lvl 26, why AST gets lightspeed and essential so early while WHM doesn't get anything. Many great jobs just feel broken on low level thats not the issue of WHM specifically they just cba to address the old jobs globally.

(Quiz time! Who can heal faster, the Scholar with three lustrates or white mage with three lillies?)

That's kinda out of context since WHM has some things no other healer can pull off without planning needed, like Benediction or plenary+cure 3

Most punishing during high movement.

I disagree, swiftcast, blood lily, lily heals are better than AST's swiftcast and asp benefic (lightspeed is for reopener only, macro for adds/intense healing)

Mana issues especially if limited ogcd toolkit not utilized.

True, but that was only introduced in 6.0 and will most likely soon be patched.

So why then is it ok for WHM to just be bottom barrel? Because it's for beginners? That's a BS argument because WHM is the absolute worst healer for beginners in every conceivable way.

True for Endwalker, because they destroyed WHM. Before that it was just the best healer for comfortable prog, it used to have zero mana issues, no micromanagement like AST or SCH, just straight forward glare spam with occasional heal, maybe mapping out instacasts to move.
Thb I don't think this EW iteration of WHM will stay unchanged for long, there are way too many complaints.