I think others have answered your questions pretty much, but to add - healing on a console is very easy, just as good as on a PC in my opinion (but I'm biased ). If you time it right, like on PC, you can queue up actions just the same.
You do have to scroll up and down the pad to access party members, but it will automatically go back to the party member you've healed a few times. In battle your settings will automatically be set so that if you aren't focused on anything, and face something and click X, it will target only the enemy and not any party members. So you can swap between targeting the boss, or focusing on your party list with bottom arrow, with one click just as easily on a computer. You can also swap enemy targets by L1+R2, which will switch through them slower, but if you're doing it while your action cooldown is up then it really makes no difference and is just as efficient.
And there's lots of option to personalize your UI and crossbars/controller to suit you. Please don't let it put you off healing, PS4 is just as good if you want to try it! (Sorry for saying automatically lots.)
You do have to scroll up and down the pad to access party members, but it will automatically go back to the party member you've healed a few times. In battle your settings will automatically be set so that if you aren't focused on anything, and face something and click X, it will target only the enemy and not any party members. So you can swap between targeting the boss, or focusing on your party list with bottom arrow, with one click just as easily on a computer. You can also swap enemy targets by L1+R2, which will switch through them slower, but if you're doing it while your action cooldown is up then it really makes no difference and is just as efficient.
And there's lots of option to personalize your UI and crossbars/controller to suit you. Please don't let it put you off healing, PS4 is just as good if you want to try it! (Sorry for saying automatically lots.)