G-give it Back T---T; !! (Scholar Edition)

[Aravell]

But, the fact that Energy Drain, clunky as it is, weak as it is, STILL gets so much pushback whenever it's removed, and the devs have to cave to such loud outcry about it, despite it being so 'bad' in terms of it's design, shows how little healers actually have besides ED.

The complaints are less about skill expression and more about how SCH literally breaks when ED is removed. I played SCH from ShB early access until they gave us ED back, it was not fun, we were basically a Lustrate overheal bot. Sacred Soil and Excog are not useful all of the time, so ED is basically the only thing we can use for dumping extra Aetherflow stacks before refreshing. If they replaced ED with an Aetherflow dump that's reasonably useful in any circumstance, then the pushback for its removal would probably not be that big.