The choice to use Cleric Stance was the exact same choice you’d make when using any of your DPS actions, and inversely, the choice to end Cleric Stance was the same choice you’d make when stopping DPS.

Unless there was any circumstance in which you would use one without the other, old Cleric Stance was arbitrary when it came to gameplay decision-making, and at worst punished the entire party any time the healer had so much as a minor technical error or lag spike at the wrong picosecond.

Even the reworked Cleric Stande was silly. A 5% DPS increase on healers who already have extremely low DPS output amounts to almost nothing. You ask the server for more bread for your tomato soup, and they sprinkle a pinch of crouton crumbs on top of your soup. That’s what Stormblood Cleric Stance was.