Meanwhile, Bole on the warrior for the last A12S adds allowed them to merrily drop stance and do pretty considerable extra damage with a little coordination.

Niche for sure, but saying that Bole served no purpose at all isn't really fair. IMHO the haste card (Arrow?) was more annoying as you could genuinely throw some jobs out of alignment with it.

It's good that the time extension stuff has actually got brought up though, those abilities were great and you could get huge value from them really giving AST an impressive level of depth that's far beyond anything healers have now.