A lot of the main issues with SCH are not being addressed with Endwalker

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Gah, I am so sorry. I got quote blocks mixed up. Or I cannot tell Hrothgar apart (despite the two very differently colored faces above and below).

...I have no excuse.

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To return to the slightly broader topic...

I'm still confused, though, why anyone would think Energy Drain ought have any effect on design decisions around having Aetherflow as a separate button. With the current maximum of only 3 resource charges held at a time, yes, it plays a vital part as a dump option, but there's no need to generate stacks via a separate button of any sort, I would think, so long as we could still sufficiently bank our resource charges to the extent we're used to.

The only advantage to having the button there was that we could bank up to nearly 6 charges' worth of actions (hold until the CD's nearly up, spend 3, refresh, spend 3 more). If we just allowed up to 5 charges to be held, with progress towards a 6th freezing just before completion until the 5th slot's space was cleared, we'd already have that capacity. There'd be no reason for the separate AF button (let alone any hybrid, far clunkier ED/AF as GrimGale suggested).

Eh, I don't think it makes it clunkier. It can be argued that having to chose between either using AF for DPS or Healing is part of SCH class design, but I don't personally think its a good niche to be the healer that is punished for using their healing oGCDs by losing DPS.
It's not a lot of DPS, but it's significant enough to make a difference. It would also remove Dissipation as an offensive ability which is IMO part of SCH issues.

As for the options I suggested, if having two extra mandatory weave slots taken by the ED is a problem (I personally think it breaks the Broil spam a bit, by having to weave some offensive options), I suggested just having ED be a 60s CD with 300 potency and granting 3 AF. You'd get all the potency from 3 EDs with the same APM than the old system.

Essentially these suggestions make it so there is no longer a choice between Healing or Damaging with your AF, which I think is a good thing for Scholar honestly. Ofc, that is just a matter of opinion, some people like that "punishing" aspect of Scholar, I think it just gets in the way and makes you feel bad for weaving healing in a job that is supposed to encourage weaving healing oGCDs.

Yes, you don't have an AF dump, but that could be solved by a trait such as something that gives you Fairy Gauge and MP based on how many stacks you have when re-gaining more AF stacks.