Yoshi P in a nutshell

[Deo14]

Did healers really get told to just play Ultimates? If you've got the source for this handy I'd love to see it, as that isn't just a terrible suggestion, but terrible PR as well.

There was a huge thread about it. Yoshi obviously said it in Japanese, so community paraphrased it in slightly more mean sounding way, but yes, in LL68, he basically said that first EW raid tier is easier than last tier of ShB, so if you want more challenging content as a healer, then you should try ultimate. That post has a timestamp for that, if you want to hear exact (translated) wording.

While I'm familiar with how dull healing is right now, I'm less familiar with the Kaiten stuff. Seems really suck that they'd ask for feedback and then not follow-up. It makes me wonder if perhaps they're mainly taking Japanese feedback or something? I can't say, but I'll read the thread you provided, maybe that information is already in there.

There should be enough info in my thread, it's long reading, but it should hopefully give you a decent picture of the situation.

As for JP feedback, it's pain in the ass to try and get in touch with them. DeepL or other decent translators have no free browser plugin to translate whole page, and then there's the whole 2ch stuff. But there's one part in my thread regarding the volume of JP feedback on the matter:

Back in july 2022 (6 months after rework) I counted pages on JP's SAM megathread (they use chaotic megathreads for some reason). At the time, thread had 325 pages worth of discussion. Meanwhile, from SAM's release in SB (June 2017) to 6.1, there was just 170 pages. That means 170 pages in 4.5 years vs 155 pages in just half a year after 6.1 release. I think it's safe to say that even JP community wasn't excited about rework.

Both of those together suggest to me that even if for whatever reason the devs aren't catering to Kaiten feedback, there's no reason to think they won't cater to any feedback.

You'll have to get a look into the Kaiten situation to decide for yourself whether you think it's okay that such a relatively simple thing to fix, with such a negative impact on players, is justified.

Fact is that SAM is just 1 job out of 19, yet the amount of uproar it caused was, and still is, pretty significant. When it was recent, a lot of people joined the forums for the first time just to share their displeasure with it, and it definitely felt like a community started to have much more negative outlook on potential future reworks.