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I agree that on most fights, SL is not a skill that can be used in a predictable, strategic way. One fight which comes to my mind is RoS phase 3, to save someone who got Spite for the second time (or even the first time, if it's late in the fight). And also RoS phase 1, because instead of healing, SL absorbs (in a way).
In general, I would see SL as a) an emergency "heal": if someone is very close to dying (and NS on cooldown), SL might save them; and b) a tool to predictably spread damage to turn a one target fight into a three target fight (to allow, as has been pointed out, more HoTs to tick).
Regarding LHW/HW, the resto shaman changes might not make us the prefect MT healers (when compared to what other classes get), but at the very least they allow us to effectively raid heal even in situations where CH is quite useless, due to the raid being spread out (e.g. Illidan phase 3-5, Naj'entus).
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