Is Grand Impact disabling JoltIII not good design?

[SalamanderIX]

What bothers me about the idea is, Yes, having no option but to use Grand Impact sounds bad on paper, but what they're really asking for and what they're getting at is something more like "I am compelled and should be compelled to always do optimal damage, because in the ideal situation, grant impact is best"

Trouble being, when all buttons are ideal without any drawbacks, situational benefits or detriment, it's that kind of thing that's led to homogenization and the aformented 2 minute meta. We need buttons that are not always the best. Red Mage is actually a really good example of a job working a bit outside the grain and making great use of a players ability to adapt. Veraise is not always the best GCD, but it's powerful when you need it, there's RNG procs constantly leading to making the most of the situation, but if you can they are also powerful.

[Carighan]

What bothers me about the idea is, Yes, having no option but to use Grand Impact sounds bad on paper, but what they're really asking for and what they're getting at is something more like "I am compelled and should be compelled to always do optimal damage, because in the ideal situation, grant impact is best"

But the whole reason some people asking to remove this Jolt->GI lock is because in some hyper-specific scenarios it'd be more optimal to sit on the GI for a brief moment.

[SalamanderIX]

Right, so they want the jolt so they could get their elemental cast proc game aligned, but in either case, if jolt or grand impact is superior, it would remove what makes grand impact a good design and just makes it "more damage" without any cost.

[Carighan]

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not in favor of removing the replacement, exaclty because there is so little friction in the RDM gameplay as-is with the nowadays extremely common procs and long full-mobility burst chain. Need to keep something around that makes people think for a split-second before just hammering their hand flat on the keyboard for the next GCD.