Hate to break it to ya'll but SAM has long been a shallow job.

It's never really been a greatly engaging job with clear defined weaknesses that you compensate for.

Unlike MNK that had and still has no range attack to speak of so has to optimize their uptime better than anyone else

Unlike DRG that was hampered until recently with Animation locks and weaving clipping their GCDs

That's why Freestyle SAM became a living meme, because of the lack of depth the job has always, always had.

They just took away a bit of the flashiness with Kaiten and now you have had the curtain pulled back to reveal the reality of the job that many of us already knew, but chose to let ya'll live in that world because of SAM being the undisputed melee king for such a long time.