I have mained scholar since arr its been my favorite job in the game in heavensward it got even more fun and in stormblood there were issues at launch and its been fixed, but in shadowbringers the ffxiv team seems to have stripped away every aspect that made scholar what it is and made it appeal to me
1 The pets
Embrace can no longer be controlled and you have to weave the skills like enkindle i can accept the skills needing to be weaved but if i cant control embrace why do i even have a pet now it feels like im no longer a pet healer
2 DPS
Another big appeal of scholar was its more complex dps rotation with several dots compared to the other healers and maintaining those while keeping the party alive now were the exact same as whm and ast and thats incredibly disappointing
3 aetherflow
without needing to balance the usage of aetherflow with healing and dealing damage and getting mana back the system has lost all interest it had now i have no reason to not have an excog and soil always up