SAM players are quitting

[ShanaShirayuki]

To me, the removal of Kaiten confirmed what Tsubame Gaeshi started for me, in that Samurai is actually uninteresting in its current path. Kaiten coming back will not change that for me.

For many of us, the crux of the matter is that if SAM and Crit as a whole were going to be reworked in future expansions, why now and not then? Why right before new endgame content where SAM players and their statics spent months preparing for? Why only one class and not others? I will echo what others have mentioned and say that I'd be less upset over these changes if they were slated to be a part of an overhaul in say 7.0. The changes were rushed; one can see this with the recent 'buffs' SAM received in 6.11. They were to combat the meme rotation in Yukikaze > Hagakure > Shinten spam doing similar numbers to the devs' projected numbers in 6.1.

Due to the 6.1 'fixes', SAM has lost synergy with 4 classes that augment Crit rate. Their DPS suffers if a SAM is brought along in a composition. Not to mention, Shinten spamming with awkward pauses in the opener / rotation is not my idea of fun. There was a reason Hagakure was restored, albeit in a nerfed form; that reason was to discourage the dull SB playstyle that was brought back with 6.1.

Tldr; if their intention was to dig themselves out of the Kaiten / Tsubame Gaeshi loop, they should've done it in a new expansion, and not shoehorned right before new raid content.