This may just be speaking for myself, but I think the largest issue for a lot of people is the number of false-positives (surviving when I 'should not' as per what people are claiming the solution is) - not whether we think the mechanic is obscure or hidden (well hidden or cleverly hidden aside). People continue to talk about the circle, yet for whatever reason I can just take a couple steps left at the end of the cast and survive fine a large portion of the time. Moving different directions just seems to wig out the method it's using to try and guess where it is. Similarly, as much as the circle works, so does just doing A-->W-->A-->W-->A-->W to go forward/strafe left/forward/strafe left etc.

Ultimately I'm withholding judgment on the matter until there's a clear distinction between the mechanic and what is the solution to living.