DWAD specifically allows you to use assassinate, so having DWAD turn into assassinate for the duration of assassination ready just makes sense.

Also, those summoner changes aren't QoL improvements so much as a regression of the class to older, worse mechanics without regard for how it works right now or the direction the devs want the class to go.

The class needs a general reduction in oGCDs, and there's no mention of EA1 and 2 or how clunky the rotation flows to begin with, which changing aetherflow back to SB's version wouldn't exactly help, especially with the added overhead of making it recharge out of combat, which would require entire systems to be designed to facilitate it.

It's basically missing the mark on what SMN needs.