As a newer player this is all rather disheartening. Healer has always been my preferred role. Currently I'm leveling my way through heavensward and I've done a lot of lvl 50 Extreme Trials. Ifrit and Ramuh require a fair bit of healing, the later mostly because all of my runs have contained people new to the fight. These fights have been made much easier through over gearing.

Everything I've heard indicates the state of healer won't be changing much. I've done low level dungeons with dark knights and warriors without casting a single heal. Level 50 dungeons aren't much better if people know the mechanics. I don't think it's unfair to ask if I'm going to be dpsing the majority of the time I'm going to need a bit more then just a small handful of abilities to use.

The crazy part is, because I have to do MSQ, I'm given hundred's of hours to learn this. As I level, I'm given more healing cool downs to use inbetween my two main heals while I learn a grand total of no new dps abilities.

As it stands I'd rather just queue as dps, queuing only as healer for fights with a lot of damage intake. This duality in gameplay and disparity in content hasn't made for a good experience D: