Shoha II is stupid...

[Experiment_X4d2]

Here's an example:
What if Shoha II was instead an upgrade that dealt damage to the selected target and AoE damage to the other targets around.
Guren worked this way before Sen'ei and no one asked for a single target variant.

We would effectively have both the ST and AoE on a single button and solve the "button bloat issue" SQEX keeps creating and complaning about.

You mean like they did with Spirits Within -> Expiacion? Yeah I get that. I dunno why they'd put 2 spells that work off of the exact same resource 2 levels apart and just make them a ST/AoE split.

Maybe give Shoha earlier on and make Shoha 2 an upgrade that's just "and X% less for all remaining enemies"? What is it, 560 and 200 pot? So Shoha: 560 -> Shoha 2: 560 and 65% less...
If SAM wasn't so bloated for buttons, id just say give them a bigger gap between getting them, but well. SAM. Y'know.

I would say that WAR and Orogeny is the same issue and could use the same treatment, but WAR ain't a job suffering from button bloat, so they get a pass.