Agreed - Crater already explained it very well.

While I understand that there were people who had issues with the skill before and had to macro it, I don't think this would still be an issue with all the changes to ground targeted abilities which we got in 6.0. You can just pre-place your cursor and then double-tap the hotkey for easy manual placement.

Although it would also be nice to have Salted Earth's uptime increased back to something closer to what it was prior to SHB, so that those good placement moments can really shine like in some Stromblood encounters.