Scholar is a horribly designed job and shows zero thought goes into healer design

[AmiableApkallu]

WHM in its current state is like many other WHMs in the series. If anything, it's far more offensive.

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It actually stacks up pretty well against any of the WHMs in the single player games...

So, I can't speak to all of the single-player games in the series, but you missed the point: You're comparing apples to fish because the single-player games have entirely different combat and encounter models from FFXIV. Each game has a different answer to, "What is a white mage (healer)?" because each game has different systems and stories that the job needs to slot into. And what matters is whether each game provides a satisfactory answer in its own context.