Has anyone quit healing?

[MintnHoney]

Hysterical ishkabibble

I understand your posts better than you'd want to admit.
Any concept that forces any of the healer jobs into a position where they will be of a higher skill floor than the others would be generally unacceptable to the developers due to accessibility concerns, and any concept that puts any of the healer jobs into a position where they will have a lower skill ceiling and a lower skill floor than the others, regardless of intent, would inevitably lead to all of the jobs having their skill ceilings and floors brought down to match.
Your "one true compromise" is a path that we've already gone down. We're here. We don't want to be here, therefore your proposal isn't the best for what we're looking for, at least as far as I see it.
I'm sad that this hurts your feelings, but that's where we are.