DPSing as a healer

[Megotaku]

[...]petty, lazy, or any of several other words that are decidedly not "respectable".

Yes, that's a concise list of disgusting and toxic words I've come to expect from this community when I try to learn about how other archetypes function in this game. Don't demand content with harsher group damage so tank mitigation or healer HPS is tested. Don't demand healer or tank abilities that naturally translate into DPS. Instead, require tanks and healers to use DPS rotations with no synergy with their archetypal roles and call them "lazy" when they don't find this engaging. I say, once again, it's a real shame this game only has one playstyle: DPS. You realize this attitude makes new players like me feel like it has absolutely nothing to offer veteran tanks and healers coming from other games, only DPS primadonnas that care about the damage meter at the end of the run.

A healer with a respectable damage output makes the difference between a 25 minute dungeon run and a 15 minute run.

Personally, if I was a DPS and the healer's damage output was high enough to reduce run clear speed by 40%, I would be livid. It would make my class seem incompetently designed that an archetype can pull the job of full healer and full DPS simultaneously. Apparently, this is what is accepted by the community here, though. So when in Rome, allow the healers to humiliate and trivialize the DPS roles, I guess. In other titles the DPS is so hysterically better than the tanks or healers that I wouldn't be so wholly dependent on their DPS contributions to get through basic content. I genuinely wonder why people even play DPS now, given how utterly useless they are. There really is no way to square this circle. I already know healer AoE DPS is second only to SMN or BLM, so if the dungeon finder didn't obligate you to take DPS classes there would be no reason to take them. Apparently, I'm the only person in this game who sees an issue with this.