I never defended the company nor did i “white knight” the dev team in my post. I admitted that I’ve only recently picked up the job for Endwalker and am leveling it. I even admitted noticing the absence of kaiten and said that more tweaking needed to be done to the job to make up for the changes. Perhaps you should read the post again.

There is a lack of implementing user feedback in the game on some issues. Job adjustments being the obvious one. I do not pretend to be a samurai main or claim to know every intricacy of the job, but i did play it in Stormblood, in Shadowbringers, and now in Endwalker. It is not a dead job but it is a job that still needs something more to make up for what was lost.

Arguments I truly understand are that with the removal of Kaiten kenki is kind of a pointless resource as it only is there for shiten or kyuten spam. That is not engaging and not a good use of a resource.

Kaiten provided an interesting mechanic added to kenki and it has not been replaced, even if Iai is where it was with the kaiten buff. The lack of interaction with the kit Kaiten provided is.. a loss for samurai and needs to be replaced with something or reverted back to.

On another note I never said providing feedback was a bad thing. I simply stated that Samurai are not the only playerbase to have their feedback seemingly ignored. But flooding the forum with thread after thread is already something proven that the dev team doesnt respond to. It’s better to have 1 thread with all the replies then 200 small threads. And not all feedback is going to be adhered to. Understand that these forums are only a small part of the community, the majority do not come here. The dev team like the community knows that.