As a tank main who seconds healer... I'm grateful to healers for what they do.

Yeah there's problems with the safeness of FFXIV's designs. However, I'm a long time player of both major MMOs and I'll take the scriptedness of 14 over the chaos of WoW.

Does it make healing more boring and the threshold harder to get good... Yeah. I think most of the time it's just how the design is coupled with tanks getting better. If you take away the scripted nature of FFXIV, then you run the risk of getting RNG-screwed with busters and autos. I don't think the fix is crits on autos, but harder hitting autos and party-wide autos, and higher incoming damage from vulns. But I also think that means that the 30-sec mits that tanks have need to be a bit stronger... Not much, just a bit.

Just one thought. But I get it. I support harder content for healers to grow.