I thought about this a bit more and I assume that this is to prevent stall-healing from max 3 and quantum, and if that's the case I'd request an exception carved out for heal troopers.
I first noticed this on heal trooper, but it applies to heal nova (and I assume any other form of healing). I didn't check if allies were affected. Seems unintended when other abilities like eshift which say "untargetable" allow you to be healed.