WHM Desperately Needs An Overhaul

[Shurrikhan]

[Dealing with MP issues directly would be the] More boring way if you ask me and it's one of my main gripes about the button bloat argument. It's just boring. No creative solutions for solving a problem, just the same old same old

How is devoting extra buttons to directly copy over the healing kit into an Afflatus version each any less boring?

You have a problem caused by a Thin Air nerf. That problem is your MP expenditure per typical minute. That does not require two additional buttons to fix. Nor does needlessly throwing additional buttons at things make a kit any more interesting.

Would Lucid Dreaming somehow be more interesting if it were instead two buttons? Would MP economy be any more interesting if Tetra and Benediction each likewise gave MP and we were tuned around their maximum MP per minute, thus making their use less flexible?

When you deal with basic capacities only through specific buttons you then constrain those buttons' usage to those capacities; you can't make Lilies your sole solution to MP issues without then reducing their ability to be used for, say, potency-neutral bankable burst since just making them potency-neutral is already going to increase their usage and thereby their effect on MP economy.

Just make a given feature's implementation do what it's actually supposed to do and then deal with remaining issues as directly as possible. It's that simple, and dealing with issues straight-on does not make things more boring -- only less convoluted and less multiply constrained.