Bards (and monks, but that's another story) have fewer skillchoices than everyone else, and those skillchoices are less distinct in terms of what kind of role an individual plays in things. But it would take a trivially small amount of effort to remedy this in a way that makes perfect sense: give us Healing.

• It makes logical sense to speak of the healing power of music. And these are Great Songs of Creation already. Heck, we have the major third!
• We're supposed to be good as a support class -- some of the help files still say so -- and Healing is great for that.
• It would be nicely distinctive from the other choices we have, so it would let people find a different way to fit into the larger picture.
• We'd be good at it, what with being charismatic and thus having big egos.
• Since it's already coded, it'd presumably be a piece of cake to add it as an option. Certainly a thousand times easier than developing something new.

I wonder if we didn't get the skillset originally because We Have Great Plans For You™, or if there's some other reason, or if it just hadn't occurred to anyone and never made it up the chain of envoys to be seriously considered. So I hope this thread will either get us an answer to why we don't have it, or get it more seriously considered to get it.