From my experience so far it's felt incredible compared to ShB scholar. More or less most of the things I speculated where the case in the past came to fruition.

Starting with the Broil cast time: As I speculated in the past that was a massive factor in the quality of life, with it returning the faerie heals to having no cost (except for Fey Union, but we'll get to that in a moment.) and reducing the inherent cost of using deployment tactics it's allievated so much clunk from the flow of the class.

Faerie Responsiveness: I was worried that this wouldn't end up being the case going into endwalker but under a majority of the time the faerie begins the animation for their action the moment your character starts to do their "point at the glyph" animation. The only time I've noticed a delay was if i gave a command right as she was doing an embrace animation, but even then it was not as much of a delay as it was in shadow-bringers. As far as ghosting, the only time I've personally witness the faerie ghosting was when i commanded Seraph right before she left the field. Under most circumstances, however, whatever delay the faerie has has been offset by the way single weaving on Broil naturally spreads out the commands.

Faerie Potency: I have not done the exact testing, but I have seemed to notice that was all the current values Fey Blessing feels much stronger then it did in SHB, a friend of mine stated that the consensus seems to be that faeries are back to a much higher conversation rate of stats like in the past, but i unfortunately have not checked for myself to confirm so. THe reduced pet potencies across the board seem to be inline with the pet having full stats conversion.

Energy Drain and Fey Union: Fey Union actually feels like a worthwhile ability to use now. The animation is significantly faster then it used to be, and once you stockpile a decent enough amount of guage I've been finding it a tool i'm constantly toggling on and off to heal with. It's about the sole reason I have no complaints with ED and the fact AF heals now cost more to use. Does it mean death is punishing? Ofc it does, death being a punishment is something I fully expect in an mmo game. But the biggest thing by far I've noticed healing in endwalker is the increased frequency I use Fey Union to "target" my faerie on specific targets. All of which is possible due to the combination of free weaving space + faster faerie responsiveness. Could i perform this prior to EW? Yes, but between the slower speed and the need to utilize Ruin IIs to achieve it, it felt far more awkward to preform.

Onto the new abilities, unfortunately I'm still level 88 so I've only used Protraction so far, and it helps, it definitely fulfills a role of being a versatile cooldown, especially since it finally gives scholars a way to buff their OGCD kits. I am excited to try out Expedience once I acquire it, but that will require me to be able to log on first. Which for me it unfortunately isn't the right time yet due to peak NA hours.

Unfortunately, I already know that despite the way it has been significantly improved in responsiveness and flow, that the fact they didn't address the thing that is repeated over and over again on this forum means that all this positivity is meaningless to alot readers? But honestly? I am more then satisfied with all the under the hood adjustments made that it's definitely reducing my eagerness to state Sage as wholly and completely superior to it.