"Healers suck so we're gonna play other roles like they are healer and whine when the people playing the role for what it is would rather not get hampered by healer mechanics" is aan argument thats less than substantive, its actively harmful to an entire role shackled by this one actions very existence in its current state.

You act like "but healers suck lol" is such a killer to "just play healer lol." Its not. The fact of the matter is, a big reason healers are in the state they're in is BECAUSE so much of their role has been exported to other roles. Tanks can practically heal themselves, every melee has self heal and mit (drg excluded), every role has mitigation, the whole party has so many tools to mitigate and recover from damage that healers already oGCD bloated healing kits are strained that much less leaving them with that much more downtime. If anything, "but healers suck lol" is even MORE reason to pull away from RDM's identity as rez mage and giving that to a healer.

Summoner dominating a tier is nothing new. They're usually the best caster (hot take: yes even for prog, and its been that way since the buffs in ShB). The point of my statement though, and you seem to understand, BLMs only real disadvantage in prog at this point in EW is the lack of raise.