I have a lot of issues with healers as they are today but the biggest issue to me personally is the new Regen Healer & Shield Healer design. We added a healer in EW yet it feels more restrictive.

Before EW, I was willing to play WHM or AST and that covered any possible healing combo. Now, if my healing partner is a WHM or AST, I'm out of luck, so I've been forced to add SGE even though my interest in the job is minimal. It would be unfair for me to say that in the past things were perfectly balanced, most people didn't want to run a WHM and a nocturnal AST but it was possible and I wish it was something they continued to work on.

They were going to try this approach with tanks (PLD & DRK would be MTs and WAR/GNB would be OT iirc) but the community voiced their distaste for the idea and the devs changed course. They took that concept and applied it to healers instead and I don't understand why.

On a related note, I really do hate how shield healers can step on each other's toes while regen healers see no issues working together.