"Future battle design may cause difficulty with casting spells"

[Carighan]

I don't really find the new BLM substantially more mobile than the old, because it has the same incentive to save all its movement tools for a damage gain at the end of its astral cycle (specifically, transpose + instant casting Blizzard 3). You're still choosing between damage and mobility and if you're too greedy you lose both.

Yeah, hence me saying that it's a well-done modification in that it keeps the entire "feel" of playing the job. Sure, slidecasting is now easier to pull off, and you got more frequent windows. And the big thing - I guess what they were going for - is that with Enochian gone, you are free to place Paradox/Xeno/Thunder for movement optimization if needed. Works well enough.