Quote Originally Posted by Absurdity View Post
Two simple reasons, 1. fast queue times 2. most people don't even engage with the gameplay enough to realize how awful the healer design, or really any of the more recent design, actually is.

Best example is the 2 minute meta, most people who complain about the atrocious design of "just hit everything on cooldown" that Endwalker brought us already had a firm grasp on XIV's combat before this change, they most likely already dabbled in fight optimization and buff alignment when it actually took effort.

Your average MSQ enjoyer just presses random buttons at inconsistent timings and never notices anything wrong, they probably don't even know what the 2 minute meta is.
I mean more in response to your why picking a level 70 healer is better

Having 6 more oGCD’s than you realistically need doesn’t add anything to the job even for a MSQ enjoyer, even they aren’t going to randomly press oGCD’s when the tank is above 90% health and call it good gameplay

So in that vein it really doesn’t matter whether the healer you pick is WHM at 1, SCH/AST at 30 or SGE at 70 because even MSQ enjoyers can see they basically feel the same at every level