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[Absurdity]

Personally I feel like they went the opposite way. Her actions being independent of your casts made her feel more like she was a pet that you commanded.
Now she just feels like oGCDs with an unknown delay and chance to ghost. Yeah, her skills are now forced onto our hotbars, but we could still put them on our hotbars before too.

Not only did the SB fairy feel more responsive, she also required no weaving windows to execute her abilities because she was a separate entity which made using her a lot more flexible. It's almost hilarious how they "improved" the SCH fairy by undoing all the fixes they made to it in SB.

SCH isn't really a 'shield healer'. Not only are its shields weaker & less frequent than AST's (Noct Opposition is waay better than Consolation), but are completely detrimental to the way that the game is currently played (casting shields for anything other than lethal damge is a 100% waste with 0 damage return).
If you want shielding options so badly, how's about instead of just increasing a health buffer (which square wants us to avoid doing - see the Critlo change), we get skills that are more tactical and interesting.

That's why I don't really see the reason they nerfed critlo spread. Sure it was powerful but that was the WHOLE POINT. You gambled on a potential crit adlo to completely negate the next damage to the party which meant no healing was required at all. Now your shields are so weak that you will have to spend resources or gcds to heal anyway so you might as well not bother.