Why don't we have more DPS abilities ?

[Mesarthim]

I've been a healer main since ARR and the healing experience got better in Heavensward which was amazing and then I had a few complaints in Stormblood when things got simplified and then Shadowbringers rolled around and ruined everything. I'm now currently unsubscribed because healing is just downright painful. I'm not having fun and that's what the game is for. It should be fun to heal and not just while you're learning for a few months as a brand new player. This game is intended to hold interest for YEARS on end and the devs have completely lost the plot when it comes to healer design for enjoyment and longevity. Play long enough and every healer is the same. Every encounter is the same. It's all boring and infuriating is the final stop for any healer player with a brain. This game makes too much money to have absolutely no one putting any effort into healer skills, animations, lore, etc. Why does Ruin 2 still look like manure after a decade? When will WHM be able to use a lily aoe heal in the first Ultimates? How many failed card reworks will the game see for Astro. Why are their two different classes that are both just functionally Scholar? It is pure insanity at this point.

I started in 3.2 as a healer main, and it stayed that way until I heard about the shadowbringer changes. It was a great expansion but by the gods it ruined my interest in healing. I now have a priority of tank >= Dps >>>>> Healing for roulette choice, only queueing if even tank times are slow. I'm only touching sage because it's the healer I dislike the least. If you asked a friend of mine you could receive a book-sized rant from me about AST (which is fine now but doesn't change the fact my job main for 1/3 of HW and all of SB was nuked from orbit).

Healing as far as FFXIV goes is not something I ever do to enjoy myself now, it is done because it's a last resort. Also hot take from myself but the 30s dot is boring because they do not interact with kits at all. I'll still take it because healers... really don't have anything else. Sage has a decent number of other attacks but they all have gigantic cooldowns so it all boils down to dosis spam.