Healer role design change?

[GoatOfWar]

nope they were designed to heal. the only reason they had DPS spells at all was for solo play. thats why they never accounted for healer damage in dps checks and stuff..

the issue being they dont want players to get too hurt, because it puts too much pressure and stress on healers and they wont play the role or something..

This is just a laughably bad comment, i'm sorry. Did they remove solo play? No. Healers didn't have damage spells for solo play, otherwise they'd still have them. But even after the removal of damage buttons, they still spend the vast majority of their time doing damage.. You only need so much healing after all, and just standing still doing nothing is beyond silly. Healers have *always* spent most of their time doing damage, that's what they were designed to do. And this remains true even in the most challenging content in the game. Your healers are required to deal damage to deal with the dps check anyways. People want the damage buttons back. The game will never be structured in such a way where you spend most of your time healing. Again, they were designed to be dps that deal with scripted incoming damage that comes in periodically. Just like tanks are.

You can demand for more healing checks, and they might deliver it here and there. But it will never be enough to change the actual gameplay much outside of a 10 second window.
You're much better off rallying behind the people who want an engaging damage rotation for healers instead of gatekeeping them to keep things the way they are now - where the reward for learning how to play your job is vastly inferior gameplay.
They would have to rework 10 years worth of content to get the game into a place where healing is required at all times. It's not going to happen.