A summary of healer issues

[Aravell]

To be clear I'm not saying it's okay that things are the way they are, but I sure would like to understand what their reasoning is if there are other things than just "they're lazy".

I don't think they're lazy, I just think they're designing healers from the perspective of a DPS player. If you look at the changes made from the start of SB until now, you can see them very slowly removing anything that can distract us from healing while giving us more and more healing tools. There's no nice way to say it, they're designing heal bots, not an actual enjoyable role.

The cynical part of me had a thought, Mortal Flame on BLU might be a test to make healer DoTs into a permanent duration so it's just set and forget. This would further their mission of making healers as fail-proof as possible by making them always ready to heal and never having to delay heals by having to refresh a DoT.