Quote Originally Posted by GinzoKazama View Post
The less attractive you make healing to people looking to try it, the less growth you'll have in the long run.
The current state of healing is hardly attractive, there's been census data from luckybancho that shows the healer role has stunted growth and has fallen behind the tanks in terms of population. While this data may not be completely accurate, it's the only data we have access to, and it's not painting a good picture for the healer role.

There would have to be a fundamental change to how all the healers kits are and shift it more toward a proper GCD DPS rotation while keeping heals predominantly oGCD. That's how raid healers heal anyway... good ones that is. The need to have to DPS race every battle makes healers just another DPS in the long run since ARR. Hard casting heals are frowned upon (mostly) and healing partners are expected to cover the other essentially. By design, you're encouraged to ensure you never use GCDs to hard cast heals. So new healers aren't going to want to play like that because a majority of the community doesn't want to play like that.
Fight design can and has been changed before, what is good gameplay now may become bad in another patch.

No need to hamstring other jobs to fix the issues with other jobs. That's not balancing, that's just hubris.
It's not hamstringing to bring a job that's blatantly overpowered back in line with the rest. Only very few people are calling for a total removal of all healing on every other role, most people are content with slight nerfs so they can't make a healer obsolete.