There is no need for this much of spells for healers

[Carighan]

No, there's no trimming down needed. Casters are very different from melee after all. While melee jobs tend to focus on combos and branching actions to get you thinking, caster gameplay tends to be more methodical and much lower APM.

Instead of pruning spells and adding combos, I'd much rather see each of the spells we do have be made more meaningful so planning is useful and our choices matter. That would create a much more satisfying caster gameplay loop rather than forcing a streamlined path of spell usage via combos.

You are essentially agreeing with the person you replied to, btw. If spells were individuall more meaningful, we could accomplish more than enough with less, and hence a solid part of the spammy arsenal of never-actually-needed spells could be pruned. One begets the other, basically.