Healers need an overhaul

[QooEr]

There's a part of me that suspects that they can't remove it.
Basically, the draw action sequence has to have a way out, with no effect to AST's current status, because the original design had an issue where you couldn't overwrite what card you had drawn by drawing a new card. This meant that, if you had a card you didn't want to use, it had to be undrawn. Of course, PC players could, in those days, right-click the buff icon to remove the card and continue, but controller players needed the undraw button to be added in while they figured this issue out.
So they may have kept the action in as a last resort method, in the event that they end up creating a state like that again, or the action's presence is a requirement to prevent it because of the nature of their spaghetti coding.

Either that, or they believe that healer contributions are so unnecessary that we should be tossing away cards when it doesn't lead to a perfect Astrodyne.

nope. even back then you could just make a macro on controller that had "/statusoff the whatever" a few times (and in fact that was preferable to undraw because you could use it while casting) unlike undraw which is ogcd

cards Still give you a card drawn buff and you can still click them off in their current iteration

undraw has been useless since its inception

[MintnHoney]

even back then you could just make a macro on controller that had "/statusoff the whatever" a few times (and in fact that was preferable to undraw because you could use it while casting) unlike undraw which is ogcd

Not everyone is/was good with macros (or in general). The undraw was necessary for those who didn't use the macro, at the time.

Even then, after that, well.. I go back to not being sure that they can remove it. It wouldn't be the first time they'd done something to back themselves into a corner of being unable to get rid of "it," although maybe not especially in the role.
It also wouldn't surprise me to find out they just left it in there because it never really bothered anyone.