Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn

Advanced mechanics certainly won't come until you are into your job. If you don't like it, then switch. However, there seems like a lot to do once higher levels come around. You'll have to pay attention to your passive cure procs, Freecure and Overcure, reducing emnity with Shroud, and managing Presence of Mind and Divine Seals cooldowns. Also, don't use Stone after you get Stone II unless you need the Heavy status, you'll notice your damage jump tremendously. You also might want to try out SCH now that you've already got the required CNJ 15.

...compared to other MMOs like WoW, Rift, etc where you have heals with varying efficiencies and speeds, procs to react to (such as double power next spell, vs non-interactive free spells), and active resource management, this is extremely basic.

Now I don't understand this. All of the things you mentioned are in this game. You have five heals, not including regen, all with varying cast speeds and one has a long cooldown; you have a proc off of Cure that will reduce the MP cost of Cure II to 0, which will be extremely important for resource management, and then ANOTHER proc off of Cure II that will cause Cure III to have a guaranteed crit (read as "double power next spell"); and I don't understand "active resource management," because you can't spam cures all willy nilly or you will run out of MP, so you have to watch what is happening and react to save your MP.

Care to elaborate? I'm not getting it. Seems like you just don't like the playstyle, which is fine.