Boring design

[Absurdity]

That’s what I’m saying there is a lot to be said about how impactful your rotation actually feels even if it’s smoke and mirrors, like if I gave you the option of getting the blades combo or giving you rampart 2 would you really prefer the latter just because the former is technically just a more visually pretty version of old Holy Spirit spam before confitier.

It would depend. If Rampart 2 actually opened up some new gameplay options I'd gladly take it over a flashier version of "more of the same", even if it had no visual effect at all, but I also know I would be in the minority.

You can argue (and I mostly agree) that jobs need something that actually changes their playstyle ever since things have become so flat and beige since ShB but given the design space we are in I’ll take the blades combo over 5 more potency on broil

This is what makes me question why they so vehemently refuse to give healers more dps abilities. They could absolutely apply the same design principle to healer dps to make it "feel" like you're doing more without actually making you do more. Probably would've quietened some of the complaints for a while, but instead they choose to stubbornly cling to the same design philosophy that has been proven to not work.