I didn't think I'd miss Kaiten that much...

[Arohk]

I hear no nothing either by the players who want Kaiten to stay removed mentioning anything about...

• Shoha I and II merging/fusing
• Guren and Senei merging as 1 skill
• Ikishoten turning into Oginamikiri
• Iaijutsu button turning into Tsubame

Saving us " Four " buttons if we really needed to tackle button bloat without changing our Gameplay. None of these suggestions came to mind to any person that seemingly want Kaiten gone to solve that supposedly non-existing Button Bloat issue we had.

[*]Ikishoten turning into Oginamikiri[*]Iaijutsu button turning into Tsubame

this is what XIV Combo does, and how it should be.
The other two skills are not building upon each other, they are just Singletarget or AOE versions of the same thing, you could argue that you get a singletarget skill first , which later turns into a better version with AOE Damage.

Paladin has that with "Spirits Within" > "Expiacion" , you don't have two hotkeys and a shared cooldown here, so it could make sense to rework Shoha I and Shoha II into one skill and Senei Guren into one Skill that upgrades into an AOE version instead of an extra hotkey.