Latest Official Developer Statements About Healer DPS?

[Aravell]

Trying to appeal to a new audience with something is fine. Doing so by alienating the original audience is absolutely insane in almost any walk of life, especially business decisions.

Thing is, they did the same thing with MCH and SMN, both ended up being massively successful despite uprooting the entirety of the playerbase that originally enjoyed them. We know from the interviews about the relic that Yoshida thinks engagement numbers going up is a good thing and healer population has certainly increased because overall population has increased. But numbers probably aren't going any higher, we know that old healer mains are quitting, but we don't know how many are quitting as opposed to how many people are newly dabbling in healers.

Point is, if the healer population remains stable enough or even only has very minimal growth, Yoshida will probably see post-ShB healer design as a success. Heck, they probably think that the pure/barrier split is a success because people are taking one of each to most content, despite that being the regular comp that most people would run even without the distinction of pure and barrier.