Healer Survey:

[Renathras]

I was pissed at him at the time because instead of asking for clarification on the healing situation (Remember, the official forums and reddit were on fire about the impending healer culling for ShB at this point), he asked about things like Egi Glamours

"Remember, the official forums and reddit were on fire about..."

Neither I nor anyone I knew playing the game at the time (this would have been late SB) were in the FFXIV subreddit. I didn't know FFXIVDiscussion existed until mid-to-late ShB, and I'm not sure I had posted on the Official Forums or knew they existed back then, either. If I did, I was very uninvolved. The only out-of-game discussion I had on the game was on Disc with my FC.

I also don't think Happy frequents the Official Forums (given his every month or so visit to general to read one thread/comments he thinks is worth laughs) much at all, and I have no idea if he touches Reddit. So it's quite possible he wasn't aware (or was much less aware) of the controversy. I think he generally mains DPS Jobs, too, making him probably less aware, too.

[Sebazy]

I also don't think Happy frequents the Official Forums (given his every month or so visit to general to read one thread/comments he thinks is worth laughs) much at all, and I have no idea if he touches Reddit. So it's quite possible he wasn't aware (or was much less aware) of the controversy. I think he generally mains DPS Jobs, too, making him probably less aware, too.

He was 100% aware of the discourse over it. Again to confirm, he said himself that he didn't ask the question because he wouldn't get an answer out of Yoshida on it. However yes, he isn't a regular healer and as such, he didn't appear to see the extent of the problem beyond 'it's there'.

Of course, we could turn to an FFXIV influencer that's a long time healer main, except of course we don't have one because SE knows precisely how badly that would go despite there being a number of actually pretty good candidates like Momo.