How would you solve the boring "damage rotation" of the healers?

[ty_taurus]

It's only pointless if you take a blind eye to the culture that is created by mechanics. As Yoshi-P himself put it (translated from Japanese):

So I totally understand that those healers that have a very high player skill level and they’ve really mastered their jobs go into these different raids or battles and when they do have some downtime between their heals they do cast more offensive spells. Some of them desire to have more technical aspects of it so they are more active and I totally understand that sentiment. But of course the basis of a healer is to heal so I think the development team and I have this thinking of getting that sense of exhilaration from doing really good heal work.

That being said I don’t think we would do any sort of dramatic addition of offensive skills moving forward. By having these offensive abilities some players, like new healers, might feel pressured like “oh do I have to have good DPS while I’m healing?” or some players might be aggressive like “oh hey you have an offensive skill in your kit, why don’t you use it?” and I don’t think that’s optimal either.

He's right.

The basis of a tank is to defend, so why is it that tanks continue to get new attacks every expansion? Why aren't we expanding on their ability to control aggro and defend against attacks rather than adding Blade of Faith/Truth/Valor? Why does Dark Knight get Shadowbringer and Salt and Darkness, but White Mage get's Aquaveil and Liturgy of the Mouthful? What about all the new tanks that might feel pressured to do good DPS while tanking? What if someone yells at a Gunbreaker for misaligning their No Mercy?

Sure, tanks need some attacks to be able to solo, but why isn't Paladin's DPS library just Royal Authority as a spammable attack, Goring Blade as a 30 second DoT, Holy Circle as an AoE, and Confiteor as a DPS refund for using some GCD defensive cooldown? Why does a Paladin need more than that when they aren't a DPS? Why do they continue to get new attacks expansion after expansion, but I'm not allowed to have a Gunbreaker-level DPS kit on Sage, the healer who was marketed as a DPS-oriented healer?