welcome back mate. Here's some advice, iif you edit your poost you can bypass word limit

Unfortunately evrything you said was completely true and whats more they actually removed energy drain from your scholar at the start of 5.0
They added it back in, begrudgingly I might add when it made scholar unplayable, and healers haven't had any gameplay changes since with the devs saying "get used to it"
The healer homogenisation and toolkit destruction has REALLY not gone down well with most people. Second only to monks

These forums full of angry healers (a 60 page quit thread and my own summary of healer issues) and a constant healer in need in duty finder or party finder. savage and ultimate isn't much better with most needing shield healers