No?
People are complaining because, for the sake of casting, we lost everything else: mana efficiency, DPS, and free globals.
You can’t DPS because if you do, you will run out of mana halfway through a fight.
You are better off overhealing with infusions (when no one needs heals) for the sake of not running out of mana. You are actively punished for DPSing when no healing is required. You are better off removing crusader strike, judgment, and shield of the righteous from your bars than actively pressing them at any given time. That is bad gameplay design.
We actively ignore holy power half the time. We overcap and waste holy power so much with this rework. That is bad gameplay design.
Our mana has been nerfed so much that the only way the class survives is by being forced to take Inflorescence of the Sunwell which makes flash of light mana free. It’s not that flash of light is good. It’s that our mana costs are so high that we can’t take anything else. That is bad gameplay design.
People love to say “well this is how the class played in legion.” It didn’t. People forget holy power was removed in Legion and you could freely use word of glory/light of dawn every X seconds without worrying about mana, light of dawn stacks, holy power, etc.
Mana costs are higher. The spenders heal for less than ever. We can’t actively DPS because it impacts our ability to heal because of the mana. We are absolutely bottom of the barrel when it comes to both healing throughput and personal DPS.
It’s not about the fact that instead of healing through DPS we now cast to heal. It’s that blizzard broke almost every aspect of the spec.
If mana were manageable, if I could press my DPS buttons when I wanted too, if holy power mattered in any meaningful way, it wouldn’t matter to me (personally) whether I was casting or not. But that’s not the case.
The spec is broken, more so than pre-rework, and the casting shills are cheering at a (literal) dumpster fire because they can finally press 2 buttons to heal while ignoring the fact that 5 other buttons, our mana, and our combo point system (holy power) are in shambles.