Late night musings: though my question was butchered in the 6.1 live letter to be about lack of healing to do, we did still get something to heal at least this patch in the regular trial, the ex and savage. possibly some bits of criterion too but i aint seen enough yet
We know yoshida has heard about the lack of participation of healers, but also heard from 2 healers that they did like the increased healing requirements

I'm seeing 2 possibilities here the devs will take forward
1. they lower healing requirements to beg back sylphies but not to the degree it was in the last tier
2. they sustain the increased healing requirements but reduce savage loot to be less grindy to gear. maybe even role locked loot if lucky

perhaps next time there's a q&a from the forum I will have to make my question purely "Can healers get damage buttons and cards returned? The removal made healers boring since shadowbringers and turned off many veteran healers"

after all, they did give more healing this patch