Well that's something we don't see too often.

While I'll agree that losing kaiten isn't the worst thing about the change, it being gone did force a change to the flow and the numbers to be shifted around in a way that's against the job's previous niche of middling combo damage that builds the resource to the high burst by flattening all the damage until they're barely any different from one another.

The change to aoe I find objectively horrid for anything that casts given that it's a circle instead of a cone now, leaving us open to cleaves and other aoes from dungeon packs just for trying to hit them with something that's as strong as a combo actions. If part of the goal was to remove tenka goken from the kit, I guess they succeeded there because it seems better to just use kyuten after aoe combo instead.

As for easier weaves, I really don't see what that could be. Not a high end player personally, so I've never used potions and other items in between buttons and I tend to keep my weaving to one oGCD between any GCD actions I perform.

Shinten is too quick and jank of an animation to rely on entirely for weaving, it still leaves a good second of nothing before the gcd rolls around to do the next action like an iaijutsu or combo ender. Third Eye shouldn't have been a problem for weaving as there's typically plenty of time between mentally registering a raid wide and pressing the button between combo actions.

Respectfully, I'm gonna have to remain in disagreement on the changes.

I hope further discourse and discussion can remain as civil as the OP has demonstrated, though.