AST (and DRG) had their improvements pushed to 7.0 PLD are getting theirs in 6.3

[Absurdity]

I think a big part of it though isn't so much that people who play healer are just bad, but that XIV's extreme reluctance to dish out the amount of damage needed to warrant the shear amount of healing tools we have has left healers unprepared to handle them effectively. And the problem is that SE will likely see this stress and then dial it back for the remaining raids. Then they'll go "well we tried to make fights deal more damage but everyone complained."

This is what annoys me so much. CBU3 has created an entire generation of healers that do not know what a proper healing challenge is, they don't know how to effectively use their toolkit or sometimes even what their toolkit can do in the first place, because they never needed to. They were exempt from failure for over 2 years and it really shows when they face anything that can't just be facerolled through.