Actually, thinking about it the devs might be saying that they removed cleric stance because there isn’t really a reason to have two sentences to say “cleric stance/esuna have been changed to role-based”.

Yoshi-P did mention he doesn’t like cleric stance. And honestly, removing it would be sooooooooo nice. Would probably help healers DPS more comfortably without the fear that CS wouldn’t come off when you click it and everyone dies.