Outside of just healing, I've seen others describing EW thus far as feeling a bit tired--feeling those pre-expansion blues and we're only in 6.28 due to the content coming out feeling very short lived. I feel this a bit too, but I also just feel really anxious to see if 7.0 will do anything to address the healers. Not saying I have much hope that it will offer something I want, but I've grown really tired of not being allowed to play the role I want to play for over 3 years now and I feel this internal pressure to want to hit the fast forward button and see when healers become at least tolerable again. SB AST and SCH weren't perfect, but I was content with them even if I wanted more from them. With all the heat coming onto job design philosophy overall, SE really has to decide where they want to go from here on the game as a whole as a lot of prominent names in the FFXIV circle are feeling tired of EW's stagnancy.

There's a part of me that feels like something will have to give on healer design as well if they are capable of addressing these concerns and I just wanna be done with EW's gameplay model and move onto the next thing. I've not felt this way before about past expansions as a whole, and it really makes me sad that I feel this way. I've taken breaks before and have no problem with that of course, it's just even then I'd think "I'll come back in a couple months and see the new content" whereas now it's more like "Damn, it's still well over a year before 7.0 comes in and maybe/hopefully fixes some of this."