A summary of healer issues

[Recon1o6]

You speak for high end players, theorycrafters, people ruled by parses/FFLogs, and those that follow what the above players tell them to think.

I absolutely do not speak for solely these groups like you insinuate
-I hate parsers, I hate parsing players
-I also dislike players that after 80 levels do not perform the bare minimum of their jobs, whether that's tanks using mitigation on a tankbuster, or samurai's freestyling and not using combos, or healers that don't contribute during the shocking amount of time where they don't need to heal.
All that stuff you get taught in your class quests and the hall of the novice. You know, those tutorials.
-I especially don't like arrogant forum users that are rude without providing evidence of their points to further the discussion instead of having a thread descend into bickering

I wrote that post using feedback gathered from healer forums, in game, reddit and various discords. I tried to cover as many people as possible when constructing the post. Is it perfect? of course not, that's fundamentally impossible. I don't claim to voice everyone's concerns, only as many as I could.

The vast majority of the player base disagrees with you. Even your aesthetic choices are subjective and not agreed on. For example, I hated WHM being a Geomancer. It was stupid. White Mages don't traditionally have anything to do with nature magics, that's generally BLMs or Blue Mage/Enemy Skill mages. I much prefer WHM getting back to Light Magic and dumping the nature stuff.

You cannot claim that the majority of the playerbase disagrees with me, conversely I have not claimed to speak for everyone.
What you can see is that this forum, reddit, twitter etc are flooded with various complaints about healers. Because a lot of people aren't satisfied.
On your elements point, here you go, a thread about whm flavour containing posts that want our conjury back. Which the WHM lore as you know says is an extension of conjury.
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...-Flavor-in-6.0

I also love having a streamlined DPS kit I can do that takes the minimal amount of concentration away from my primary duties of healing and correctly performing mechanics. I hate involved and complex rotations - if I liked those, I'd play a DPS Job. I prefer healing and supporting my party.

While your point is valid, denigrating those who have an opposing point is not.

I enjoy having something variable and fun to do when I don't need to heal like I did during the 6 years before SHB. On whm that was juggling a couple of buffs and cleric stance. On sch that was dots, bane and shadowflare. On astro that was my cards. Granted I sucked at sch so I didn't play it much.
Nobody is asking for complex rotations. We're just asking for a few buttons so that its not a miserable affair.
Look around the forum, a lot of people want more support buttons as well. WHM's especially have been asking for more utility and support actions for years. AST lost their support aspect almost completely- the cards got gutted. SCH's also lost their support buttons when they could silence and slow.

Can you honestly claim that pressing stone and aero vs ranjit or zenos, or even when fighting a fate by yourself, or grinding in bozja for a glowy stick, or on a treasure map is fun? Because for many people of many skill levels, it is not.

Though I did agree with you on exactly one point: point 9

I'm someone who plays a female character, and I can't stand the sheer volume of feminine gear. Robe after robe after robe, coat after coat after coat.

They couldn't even leave judge drace's armour alone without making its awesome cape into a skirt for the law's order healer/caster set.