I feel we are mentally biased into using meditations or altruistic healing for survival. The burst healing on both is nice, but the sustain healing may or may not be there in truth.
So I had a small build challenge, run without AH or MF for a week and see if you need it!
If we do, then that may or may not be a crutch, or just nature of build diversity (similar in all classes, getting stuck down a specific line, not too horrible). If we don’t then expand a bit and try new things