Animation Lock: Why don't you like it?

[Rau]

Ifrit and his cracks for example.
If ur stuck in animation-lock, you dont get out of the cracks before they erupt. Thats one of the problems we had with it.

Doesn't that undermine the challenge of the fight?

As far as I understand that fight was plagued by tremendous amounts of lag, but as far as timing your attacks to properly avoid cracks, I think that mechanic was working as intended.

Global cooldowns and animation lock aren't the same thing at all...

both of them are methods to prevent spamming skills in short periods of time. we are getting one in place of the other.