Astral Fire/Umbral Ice timers are actually bad mechanics at a meta level.

[PyurBlue]

I don't wanna have to spam Transpose/Umbral Soul between pulls/mechanics just to keep Polyglot up

Wouldn't it be better to fix the problem instead of changing everything else then? Make Umbral soul pause the ice timer so you don't need to spam it. Before it existed, that's what I thought a BLM downtime skill would look like. I don't know why they went with one that requires constant action.