I am sad that they’ve removed Foe Requiem, it was the only actual Bard song we had left, but I guess they don’t want Bards to sing more than once every 30 seconds.

I don’t understand the purpose of the ‘Soul Voice’ gauge either. I mean, there’s the glaringly obvious issue that the ‘Soul Voice’ gauge is entirely unrelated to your voice in any way which is kinda hilarious.
But from my understanding, the gauge exists solely for use of Apex Arrow? But Apex Arrow only costs 20 of that gauge anyway. So as long as you have more than 20 gauge you can use Apex Arrow without any real repercussions or gauge management? It’s not like you have to think ‘should I use Apex now? Should I use X instead?’ Etc, literally the only kind of management I can see at the moment is looking to see if you have enough gauge to use another Apex if you use it. Why not just make a cooldown? Did we really need another gauge just for the sake of having another gauge?