Healers, then and now:

[Connor]

7.0:
All healers no longer have healing abilities. All dps abilities passively generate healing to all party members. Cleric Stance removes the healing but gives a dps boost. That’s it, that’s the role lol.

Then in 7.5 they’ll be like ‘But we gave healers exactly what they asked for, what more can we do?!?! We had 6.0 Scholar done perfectly it was so good we couldn’t even thinking of anything new to add!’

If there’s one thing the developers excel at, it’s taking the completely wrong message from players and implementing it wholesale into the game.