WHM getting progressively more unnecessary in content?

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Not sure if others are feeling the same way, but i haven't ever seen it mentioned so i'll bring it up.
Do you feel like WHM is, as people obtain more gear, losing it's usefulness?

Obviously WHM focuses on healing, and can heal more than an AST as a healer main. But for the past month now, even on the hardest content, the extra healing simply proves unnecessary. You don't need a Cure III to survive Mega Holy. You don't need an asylum to keep everyone up between heals. You don't need almost any of WHMs extra healing strength to clear content. It makes me feel that there's no point in bringing a WHM in if an AST can come in and heal it just as well, while offering support to it's party.

It's to the point where bringing a WHM to a party feels more like a handicap than a helpful addition. I'm sure this couldn't have been SE' intentions; making WHM only relevant in progression raiding, if even that. Do other WHM mains feel the same way? I don't think WHM is BAD, not at all. But I feel AST currently offers too much as a healer for WHM to continue competing with it. It simply remains viable enough to heal with, but I no longer feel comfortable playing a WHM knowing how much more an AST can offer.