How would they even make another healer job though?

[Kazrah]

Think of it this way, does SCH have a large heal or an AoE heal they can spam should the need arise. They do not, the only heal they can spam, realistically is Physick, their basic heal.

Here's a better way of thinking it: are you playing Scholar correctly? Based off of that one single comment and how you're trying to make that super hard comparison, you clearly don't. That's okay though since most players don't, specifically since it requires breaking the mentality that all heals are reactive (they aren't).

In emergency situations requiring heavy healing, Scholar can still theoretically spam cast Adloquium and still get the effective healing for both the heal and the shield or shields (which again, both Galvanize and Catalyze are still heals) that enemies have to eat through to keep lowering someone's HP, while occasionally using Emergency Tactics for an extra oomph of raw health.

That being said, I use the word "theoretically" for that because that's not how Scholar works. First off, absorption healing is preemptive, so heals like Adloquium and Excogitation are dropped down before hand, and much of mastering that comes from knowing the fight. For proper heavy healing like harder tankbusters and the "pop quiz" healing check of the Cidolfus fight in Orbonne Monastery, Scholar has the Aetherflow heals (since Excogitation is an empowered Lustrate if the ally is under half health), Emergency Tactics for either Adloquium or Succor, and faerie skills that include its Illumination buff for more healing ability, its HoT ability, and Seraph's Consolation and increased healing. Yes, you could argue "but what if those are all on cooldown", you could just as easily ask the same of other healers in similar circumstances.

Ultimately, whether it's raw HP restored or an amount of shielding, an enemy still needs to eat their way through it to kill a player. That's why they're considered healing regardless of player perception, and it's all based on how it's used. Scholar's a great example of something devs are good at: making massive differences by tweaking one or two little things. By saying "let's tweak a heal so half of it is preemptive in the form of absorb shield", the playstyle becomes wildly different compared to other healers, requiring a different approach to how someone plays that healer compared to others. That's why I know that Scholar's not a healer for everyone, and why you have healers split between those who prefer the preemptive style Scholar and those who prefer the more reactive style of White Mage.

Going back to the original topic though, I do thank you for the comment on the healer boilerplate. Just because Scholar gives the quasi-illusion of being an outlier doesn't mean that it doesn't follow it like the next healer likely will.