Well damn, I had no idea. I appreciate you being genuine about your thoughts
To be fair though, the mage hand spell feels very very broken so far. Partly bugged, partly over powered. I expect some of its features to be changed.
That being said, I'm not sure the comparison with clerics/healing characters makes the case against what I am proposing. After all, they are a different type of class with different issues.
I'm not sure they need to change 5e even more, to fix a problem they created by straying from 5e to begin with.
That is a very fair argument to make