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>New healers/shielders all tend to offer meaningful subdps or other perks so if the 20k subdps gets powercrept she's just another healer with res shred like xianyun or jean, but more restrictive activation conditions.
If Escoffier is powercrept it's either because we're talking about shit that's happening 3-4 years from now or the game's power creep ramps up exponentially and within one year we're talking about 200k DPS teams as a norm. She provides way too much and there are good enough options between Hydro and Cryo that you're not even missing out on anything by being restricted to the element. The only way this would change is if Cryo gets a Mavuika-tier outlier who is designed like Mavuika(slow, strong hits encouraging a Melt team) and a broken Cryo/Pyro support is added(Citlali doesn't count; she's a Pyro/Hydro support) but this is unlikely to ever happen because you'd just run a Pyro DPS for Melt since it has the superior forward reaction.

Also 20k DPS is a lowball. I mentioned scaling for a reason. Escoffier's damage can ramp up quite a bit purely through weapon/artifact investment. Lauma barely scales at all beyond her baseline(200 EM from weapon, 561 from triple main stat, 115 from ascension) and Bloom reactions will always be throttled by elemental application or hard-coded limits. Hell even her signature is arguably just a sidegrade due to her ER needs. Seen here: 37k+ off-field DPS just from Mona and I don't even have Escoffier's signature weapon.