I've healed turn 4 and never left Cleric Stance in AK as SCH without manually using any of the fairy's abilities except Embrace. I generally don't use the Place command unless it's absolutely necessary (t5 is the only place I can think of). Could I be a better healer if I did micro the fairy? Maybe. Is there anything in this game hard enough to require it? No.

That said, being able to put pet actions into macros would be awesome, if only so I could macro both fairies' Embraces into one button.