I swear I had a stroke trying to make sense of this. The Cross Class system was absolute garbage and did nothing but constantly nerf WHM in every expansion.
Protect lost the Pro-shell trait going into HW because "It wouldn't be fair if only WHM had the trait" and yet every healer currently has AoE Shielding effects EXCEPT WHM so that was BS.
Stoneskin 1+2 both got removed entirely with Divine Benison being Stoneskin but worse, with the only saving grace being that it's an oGCD. This meant that the Graniteskin Trait that made Stoneskin on WHM stronger than the cross role equivalent was also removed.
Cleric Stance was just straight up removed.
Divine Seal became Largesse in SB so that everyone could have it, despite neither AST or SCH needing the damn thing because they already had skills that buffed their GCD healing while also having solid oGCD skills. Now, we have to wait for level 80 to get Divine Seal's effect back in Temperance, at DOUBLE the CD because they added 10% mitigation to it as though Sacred Soil, Kerachole and Collective Unconsciousness don't provide that same Mitigation at half the CD.
Esuna is only there because they removed SCH/AST's equivalent skills in the grand Homogeneity of healers.
Shroud of Saints became Lucid Dreaming because of similar reasons so that SE didn't have to worry about making unique MP sustain tools for each healer......and went and did that anyways because Shroud of Saints wasn't enough for WHM in ARR and it still isn't.
Repose is the single most useless ability in the game and how it hasn't been removed yet just goes to show how little SE actually cares about healers.
The Cross Class/Role system is by far one of the worst systems in FFXIV but how that relates to WHM being the "fine for Healers who want to heal" when nothing on there helps with healing at all is the biggest strawman argument I've ever seen that it borders on delusion and leaves me questioning your sanity as a result.



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