Ex-Healer turned DPS and now I have new perspective:

If I'm doing well, the healer is completely unnecessary. I'm usually practicing to be doing well. Which means my practice comes with the ultimate goal of excising a healer from me short of a DNC which, as a SAM, I am always chosen as a dance partner. Healers are borderline outdated by now and I regularly think to myself "Please don't heal me. I have Bloodbath. Just do more DPS or help the tank".

Essentially, healers are clinging to relevance while both tanks and DPS' are stomping on those clinging fingers with their boots as we practice to no longer need them. A corrosive take, I realize, but it's mine. n' I realize a likely response is "Then you don't deserve any heals". That's fine. That's my point. The fact that that's fine isn't okay, but that's the state of things and that's where SE drove your class.

Now I'm off to play a job that requires more than three buttons.