Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[Azurarok]

Personally, I'd love that.

YoshiP himself mentioned that's not what he wants healing to be during the EW media tour, though we don't know if that's still what he thinks.

He also explains next in that clip that gearing up will reduce healing required, so it's inevitable that they'll end up with more healing downtime.

[Carighan]

YoshiP himself mentioned that's not what he wants healing to be

I mean, the lead dev both not personally liking healing (clearly) and also (clearly) having little understanding of players who do sure explains a lot about the issues of the entire healer role in this game and their absolutely bonkers design that makes even the GW2 "Throw 240 skills at the wall and hope 5 stick so someone can make a spec from them"-approach sensible by comparison. Sigh.