DPS has always been a priority in this game above everything else. The biggest change that we've witnessed was the deliberate design shift after Stormblood onwards away from letting support roles actually offer competitive DPS. You will never have a rotation remotely comparable to DPS jobs, simply because your action budget is split between defensive and offensive moves. The only reason why people still put up with playing supports is because there's just not much competitive drive within those roles, letting you be a big fish in a small pond. We've known this for many years now.

Seeing as some of you have been 'career healers' for many, many years now, have you not given any thought to simply swapping over to the dark side? Tanks have historically been better off than healers, but as a former 'career tank', I don't think I would still be playing this game if I stayed on the role. I swapped over to melee DPS this expansion and found the experience to be vastly more satisfying, both in terms of value for effort and raw carry potential. Nobody will value you for martyring yourself over a video game role, least of all over one that everyone knows provides lesser value than the rest. If you're good enough to make the swap, I highly encourage you to do it. (Also, the queue times are negligible on a high population server.)