From Yoshida himself

[AkashiXI]

Let me start off by saying I don't openly critique this game on forums. That being said, I really dislike it when Yoshida or anyone within the official development says something along the lines of "relax, don't get overly excited about [insert issue]". The answer to why is simple: Square Enix's lack of communication. Whether it's their online support, to development questions, to their official forums, they seem very disconnected with their community. Yes, Yoshida answers a lot of hot topics during live letters, but imo, wouldn't it be much better to post here (every now and then) to simply state they're aware of said concerns? Instead, we have a block of time where we don't know anything, so we speculate. I just wish the back and forth between community to development was more concise, that's all.

[Mature]

Some people just Overreacted in an absurd manner about WHM changes. Specially when the game is not even out even...

[Derio]

Means WHM will be A fail until 4.1

[Furiea]

Means WHM will be A fail until 4.1

does that mean you gonna continue to be a troll about whm until 4.1? =)

[Furiea]

just like when SE made tank's dmg depends on VIT instead of STR.. people were flipping out for no reason.

[SenorPatty]

Calm down?

Did Yoshi-P just tell me to calm down?

Awwww hellllll nawwww *goes into pigeon neck mode*

[Doki]

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Some people just Overreacted in an absurd manner about WHM changes. Specially when the game is not even out even...

You don't need to play it to see that it's toolkit is extremely weak compared to the other healers.
Heck, unless they completely overhauled the entire system from the April build till now, "waiting and seeing the patch notes" is not even a good argument. It's just delaying the inevitable.
Then you'll tell us to wait till savage, then wait till 4.1, then wait till 4.2. seriously, when are we actually allowed to voice our complaints?

[Victoria_Silverdawn]

I wasn't really upset about the gauge and whatever... I was open minded about that... could be cool... whatevs... but lillies do need something else... a casting speed buff while having the stacks... increased heals... something... and yes... people will say it's not fair... blah blah blah...

My biggest issue was them gutting WHM of all their abilities... and giving it to everyone else, so WHM has to waste most of their action slots for the skills they use to have... and not giving WHM something else to replace those skill and buffs... that was upset me the most... yet they left repose... because that's a useful skill they couldn't have gave to everyone else instead

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

My concerns over WHM aren't about viability. I have no doubt in my mind that WHM will be viable for endgame content. My concerns are whether groups will find WHM desirable compared to AST and SCH.

When all three healers can heal and dps sufficiently, desirability of the healers will be determined by what else they bring to the raid, namely raid wide dps buffs which AST and SCH have but WHM does not.