To follow-up on what I was saying about how healing was praised during ARR, this wasn't the article I remember, but I did find one article on SCH specifically from 2013. This is really just an opinion piece from one game journalist, so certainly take it with a grain of salt, but I just wanted to highlight this specific part that I find hilarious in hindsight:

"I can't speak for White Mages, but I can say that healing at endgame as a Scholar is a blast. With DoTs, off-global cooldown abilities, dodging, and pet management to deal with I am rarely ever bored. I am literally always doing something in dungeons, and that feels amazing.

What's so special about SCH anyway?

Everything!

Okay, well maybe not everything. Physick certainly isn't."

The full article is here. Again, it's just an opinion piece, but it's another pieces of anecdotal information to toss onto the pile of people loving all the things SCH has lost.