General Community Resistant to Healer Damage?

[Videra]

Oh you're not allowed to like it. Listen to the I want healers to be more like dps crowd.

I want healers to be more like they used to be. It's a simple fact that healers - good ones, anyway - spend at least 60% or more of their GCDs on DPS. And I go entire dungeons where my only GCDs are Broil and Biolysis, which isn't particularly hard - and speaks to the problem. Healers have lost DPS skills, every single one of them, and as a result, have become noticeably less fun because of the game's design. Even White Mage has lost a great deal of dot management over the years. Every single healer used to have a much higher skill floor and skill ceiling, and I loved that - and I want it back. Cleric stance? Yeah! MP management actually being a thing? You know it. More dots than I know what to do with? YES!

Healers used to be much better, they were much more fun in the bygone days of Heavensward - and even Stormblood.

Edit: I should add that because there were less OGCD heals, people actually used more GCD heals in HW and it was a balancing game. How novel.

[Granyala]

Cleric stance? Yeah! MP management actually being a thing? You know it. More dots than I know what to do with? YES!

1 F*** Cleric stance! I hated that thing with a passion. It wasn't hard to execute the dance but so often the dumb server would not recognize my input and I'd only notice while the next cast was underway... ugh. Do NOT miss that one bit.
2 Agreed. Infinite MP, while nicely OP is boring in the long run.
3 Definitely, I miss having to juggle more than one DoT.

But lets not just lament about DPS abilities, after all we are HEALERS. I would like to see more hard hitting content, necessitating me to heal more.
You know SE, the reason why I rolled a white Mage in the first place? To heal? Because that's where the fun is, not in executing some mediocre DPS rotation or priority list.

Ugh who am I kidding, gotta balance everything that isn't "organized raid" to the lowest common denominator.
And yes, before you ask: I no longer raid savage because since ShB the game has become so laggy that it isn't feasible (no it's not hardware on my end, it's some net company between my ISP and SE's ISP. So the lower content is all I got. >.<