Quote Originally Posted by ty_taurus View Post
In short:

Healers are too similar to one another, and the better you get at healing, the worse the gameplay feels for many players as the reward for managing your healing better is largely spamming 1 button, the antithesis of MMORPG gameplay. Our healing abilities are excessive in both strength and volume in comparison to how much damage we take in this game, but we also can't increase the amount of damage taken by that much or it becomes very difficult for new or learning healers to survive.

Many dedicated healer players want healers to have modest, yet rewarding DPS spells and abilities that puts them around the same level of DPS depth as the tanks so that when there is nothing to heal, there's a gameplay loop for them to engage with. Since the vast majority of content in FFXIV does not have enrage mechanics, it also doesn't mean that those newer or learning healers have to prioritize optimizing those additional DPS tools, allowing healers to play at the pace they're comfortable in, but always have some kind of engaging gameplay factor regardless of skill level.
Very well summarized