Honest question for people dissatisfied with WHM:

[Silver-Strider]

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.

SB Lilies stayed that way for the entire expansion so the likelihood of WHM staying the way it currently is is pretty damn high. The most we'll see are potency/cost adjustments but that won't change how flawed WHM is from the ground up.

Right now it's just a broken job, nothing more. Giving it top DPS for just half-asleep glare spam wouldn't seem fair to me.

No one here is asking for WHM to be the top DPS healer. We're asking for a rework for WHM entirely.

I want the leveling experience to be better. I want old, removed skills like Stoneskin and Divine Seal to make a return as low level versions of our current toolkit so that we can properly teach new WHMs how to utilize their toolkits sooner rather than later. SE already set this as a precedence with the rework MNK and BLM got, so WHM can get similar treatment, especially since WHM has a lot of removed skills that easily parallel their current toolkits that it shouldn't even be that hard. Divine Seal is literally the same as Temperance so making it a low level version of it should take no effort at all other than some coding since both the animation and icon for Divine Seal should still be in the game's code. Stoneskin just needs to be turned into an oGCD and it would be the same as Divine Benison. There was a PvP version of Protect that worked almost exactly the same as Aqua Veil as a single target defense buff with a short duration so make that available in PvE as a low level Aqua Veil and you give WHM a much better foundation to work off of.

From there, we can improve how the toolkit interacts with itself. Procs like BLM's Thundercloud could absolutely work on WHM if we have it work on our Regen and Medica 2 so that good Regen uptime rewards the WHM with more damage and better MP sustain. The Lily System could proc an oGCD skill like GNB's Continuation Combo, which would grant the weave windows that Lilies grant some more purpose since the cast time changes in EW kind of robbed them of their purpose as a mobility tool and with Regen granting hypothetical "Diacloud" procs, Lilies would need something of equal value to be worth it so making Misery DPS neutral via these oGCDs would be perfect to both expand WHM's gameplay as well as solve the problems of the current Lily system being a DPS loss to utilize.

These changes alone would do wonders for WHM as you resolve several key complaints about the job while adding mild levels of complexity that don't detract from being a straight forward healer. It might not have the highest DPS out of the healers but if it's fun to play, it doesn't really matter.