I think they can get away with ED being removed, if they replace it with something that is 'what to use spare Aetherflow on, but not damage'. There will of course be the people who complain that 'great another avenue of skill expression gone', though. I would like to see a ST shield Flowspender, that can spread the shield via Deploy (so that we can apply a shield fully OGCD with another method than Consolation), and because it's a shield, if nothing else you can lob it at the MT to help them stay alive a bit more

But, the fact that Energy Drain, clunky as it is, weak as it is, STILL gets so much pushback whenever it's removed, and the devs have to cave to such loud outcry about it, despite it being so 'bad' in terms of it's design, shows how little healers actually have besides ED. Like, I doubt the complaints about 'we need ED for skill expression' would be even remotely as loud if SCH had 'literally any other skill expression tools'. If the devs are so hellbent on removing it (as shown by all the times they've tried to, and then relented), then maybe they should consider replacing it with something interesting, instead of just removing it and leaving 'nothing lol' in it's place