It is not new news no. This was something we complained about during Endwalker and according to the development team we were to expect changes to Dawntrail's combat design.
Yoshida said that job changes may need to wait till 8.0 because they were changing encounter design SO MUCH that making the jobs too different would be too much for us.
It's clear that all of that is just not true. That is what this thread is about.
It is just further evidence that they are not listening to Healers