Healers need an overhaul

[Silverbane]

It's really not a personal attack.

Well we disagree on that. And some of the other replies indisputably are personal attacks.

Every player's enjoyment matters equally, but there's a difference in the understanding of the role between someone who's healed at all levels of content, casual, midcore, and hardcore, or who's been healing since SB, HW, or even ARR, and someone who's only healed casually, who's only started FFXIV recently, or who doesn't main healing. Who do you think has more creditable feedback?

Mine, for how I've been playing the game since 2015.
I don't know what the "hardcore" players need: I don't have their perspective, and I'll do them the courtesy of not pretending I do. It would be nice if they returned that favor.

Healing suffers a very unique issue where it's issues are not apparently to new, learning, casual, or flex healers because of how players engage with the responsibility of healing. Those types of players find lost HP scarier. ... They're prone to overhealing out of fear of leaving someone unhealed ...

If I was ever "scared" of people having low HP, it was years ago.
These days, I'm just amused when, for example, a tank dies because he ran out of my range or LoS'd me in a W2W trash pull. It's all part of the fun, and how people learn.

Besides, in the immortal words of Vince Lombardi, "the best defense is a good offense." Like dead DPS, dead mobs do no damage. So if the tank dies in a W2W pull but all the mobs die too, as happened in a recent pub run with me on SCH and two decent RPRs on DPS, that seems a fair trade.

It's only when you start learning how to improve that the reward for your skill is utter monotony.

Maybe you need to pug more. There's nothing monotonous about running with tanks and/or DPS who don't know their kit, don't know the mechanics, or both. I don't even find it frustrating, because I don't have high expectations for pugging, and certainly don't expect a fast clear.