Has anyone quit healing?

[Silver-Strider]

Let's be real here, no one knows what the hell the Devs were doing back in ARR/HW and I'm willing to bet money the Devs themselves didn't either. With all the jank between all the jobs at the time, no one can argue whether or not the Devs intended for Healers to DPS or not during content but there were more hints that they should than not. Holy having a Stun was VERY indicative that they should and SCH had more DPS actions than some of the DPS did. HW didn't help either when they over tuned Savage content to flat out require it for Gordius and to a lesser extent Midas. Also, considering that Healers were doing more damage than Tanks back then as well, what did you expect the community to conclude? The Devs aren't infallible. They have made countless mistakes over the years so trying to guess what their intent was back then is meaningless but the fact is that Healer DPS IS required now and that fight designs have been toned with that in mind. There is no Cleric Stance or sustain issues baring the way anymore, oncoming damage is so infrequent that just standing there doing nothing is akin to griefing at this point, even more so now that SGE is a thing that REQUIRES DPSing to utilize one of its main gimmicks, the adjustments to skills like Assize to align with 2 minute burst phases, the list goes on.

There's nothing really further to discuss. The Devs have backed themselves into a Corner in regards to Healers at this point. People are quitting the role and it could be for a plethora of reasons.

It could be that the current tier was a step too far for many players and they just stopped.
It could be that veteran healers are sick of the awful gameplay loop of healers devolving down to a single button.
It could be that this expansion just sucks.

Whatever the reason, the Devs need to find and address the issue or it will get worse.