The new farseer talents were added last week. They’re pretty uninteresting and negligible as far as gameplay/feel. Under current alpha playstyle, ancestors would have to be tuned INSANELY high to even compare to totemic. Especially since ancestors are tied to HST.
The problems with farseer are also tied to the apex talents. The apex talents proc a super HST that is also not proc’d often (<1 a minute currently) but also can just proc at a time you might need to hold it. If you need to hold it then you’re not having ancestors come out, and you’re just falling behind. If you rip the super HST at a bad time just for ancestors, you could also just be falling behind. Currently the amount of ancestors is SUUUUPER low compared to retail because of being tied to HST and not Undulation/UL.
Not to mention the apex talents being tied to HST vastly favors Totemic because you can just rip those whenever you need a Chain Heal. They also just do way more healing in Totemic because of how the hero spec operates.
I think resto shaman on alpha needs a rework of the spec talent tree and some interesting things given back to us, or brand new interesting things. Apex talents included; having them focused around HST is a BAD design imo, especially on a very RNG proc basis. If they wanted to keep the same principle of “proc a big heal button,” I say change it to be Chain Heal centric. Have the middle apex increase the range of chain heal jumps, and have the super button be called something cool like Chain Harvest. 
Simple is fine, I’m not against the pruning, but they went too far. Take resto shaman in raid right now. It’s spread riptide, use CBT decently well, and spam healing wave. It’s incredibly simple and it was fun for a minute, but now I’m bored out of my mind. However, resto on alpha is even more simple, it has 4 buttons that don’t really interact with each other, and don’t form any meaningful/fun rotation. There’s little to no skill expression. There’s also an insane amount of passive healing that you don’t really feel like you even contribute to doing, which to me is not engaging. Maybe it is to some but, I think this spec needs a rework from what’s on alpha.