Yeah. A lot of people questioning what is left of the identity of 'playing with fate and destiny and using what you're given' when this is just... buttons that do X. No flavour or substance. The big astrologian thread I don't think I've seen a single positive response about it over there. I personally don't want a return to random unique effects as cards but, at this point? I'd take it. I'd take anything, just not this. Just as long as they're cards.
Also I'm not picking viper because it's FOTM, thank you very much >;3. I'm picking it bc it has a 20s duration personal buff with 2 charges with a 40s CD and that's the most interesting thing they've added since shadowbringers. Which makes me even more mad about this AST rework/deletion because I would have loved figuring out the card timings for Vipers and adjusting to them, instead of just playing two dps cards every 2mins and thats it!