Quote Originally Posted by Nethereal View Post
The fact healing isn't engaging in FFXIV is entirely a self inflicted wound created because of YoshiP's obsession with total and absolute inclusion.
Even this doesn't seem to be accurate, because it didn't make healers any more appealing, accessible, or "playable", since almost all content could already be cleared even when Healer DPS was in the "optional fad" era of community perception.

Like... long before the gradual Stormblood → Shadowbringers mutilation of Healer action kits, you still had people who never used Cleric Stance, or Alliance Raids where healers were using nothing but healing GCDs... etc... Effectively, it was "their choice" how much to engage with the DPS aspects of the rotation.

So all that the later changes really did was begin excluding people that liked using the full DPS kit, which is... bizarre.