By that logic you aren't forced to do anything, but you will enjoy your progression being 10x harder than anyone else's?

I get what you are saying but whether or not you agree with it, the entire point of the proshell for everyone is to make sure that everyone has that buff...so regardless of whether or not you feel WHM is required this is a step to make them less required. They wouldn't want to just turn right around and make it more required again, it wouldn't make sense designwise. You still right now need one for Mind boost, but maybe astrologer brings that, but then you may want SCH for piety - etc. Its always imo bad when only one class brings something.

Sure lets not have homogenization, but every buff/debuff should have at least 2 classes bringing it.