I'm bored when I heal because I need more complex DPS rotations

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That's interesting, but it doesn't really tell me how these designers are allocated, or whether this is by role. On what basis are we saying that there is no healer designer? Is there another interview that you're drawing this information from?

(I also note that the current credits have changed relative to your list and link - I can provide a screenshot if you want).

He must be a somewhat recent addition, that's good at least. Assuming there's no typo in the name, I can't find any history listed on them which honestly is probably a good thing. Fresh blood and ideas is the best thing this team needs IMO. It would be interesting to find out where they came from though!

As far as specific allocation goes, we're not fully privy to the whole process. Yoshida has talked a little about things but it's nothing concrete. It's mostly conjecture from the much more public processes we saw with World of Warcraft where you had several key designers that fought tooth and nail for their 'favourite' class (Eg Tigole/Kaplan and Rogues). The designer's favourite jobs are known from various fanfest boards where they've posted.

It's also very evident from some of the oversights and errors that have been made even recently with regards to healers and expansion updates that there isn't a whole heap of attention being paid or at best, the people sanity checking the numbers honestly don't play the job to any level beyond base competency. Eg anywhere from Misery potency not being scaled up with Endwalker's release or right the way back to SCH being 'updated' to have no spammable AoE button at any level. These are just a few examples that anyone with interest, experience and ability in the role should spot almost immediately with a bit of playtime in even basic content.

And of course, this is before we point to the simple and undeniable fact that current healer kits simply do not match up with mainstream content. There's a huge disconnect right there.