Healer role design change?

[Renathras]

I'm not confident that debating to such a level of minutiae necessarily helps with this particular topic anyway, as the problem isn't needing a few abilities tweaked or removed, but a general issue with how Healer jobs are designed, the homogenisation of the role as a result, and how poorly it all fits with historic and current encounter design. (Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I thought most people here were on the same page as far as that all is concerned.)

Yes, which is also my point and why I'm consistently surprised how I can state something everyone agrees with but people want to argue about it. [EDIT: That is, people seem to love trying to "prove Ren wrong" even if it's something they agree with the overall concept of and where the minutia argument (a) doesn't prove me wrong - I can present arguments to counter the above, I just see it as pointless, and I'm trying to get better about not legitimizing the derailing and Ren bashing when there's an actual discussion to be had that isn't any of that; and (b) just gets lost in the weeds and derails the discussion away from "we all agree about X, what should be done about it?" into "I have a technical issue with Ren saying Y about X thing we all agree with, so instead of discussing solutions to X, I'm going to try to make him wrong about Y and fail at doing it because he is the white whale" or something. <_< ]

Concur that the issue is encounter design has changed over time to where healer designs that are closer to ARR are less viable, and that there's now a glaring disconnect between Healer kits and encounter design, which has led to a lot of shoehorning and a lot of homogenization. [EDIT: My point related to WHM and Lilies, as well as BLM and post-SB additions to the Job, are both cases of said shoehorning and was the entire point of me pointing out how WHM wouldn't work in current encounter design without them because it wouldn't have that mobility and mobile healing. It's had to be shoehorned to fit into the current encounter design at all. Even if we submit that SCH needs Aetherflow to be viable (we do not, but let's pretend), SCH had AF and all of those abilities since at latest SB, and they work just fine in EW, whereas WHM hardcasting Medica 2 or chain casting Cure 2 - both things that were viable at various times in the game's history - in EW era high movement fights, does not work without a Swiftcast and a huge chunk of MP that isn't sustainable.]

The obvious solutions are to roll back encounter designs, change Healer kits, or a hybrid solution of doing both. There may also be further solutions, but those three seem obvious from the jump.