[dev1058] Why has animation-lock during movement/combat not been addressed?

[Naqaj]

It's a huge problem for everything you seem to want this game to be. And from where I'm sitting, it's an easily solvable and completely unnecessary issue (granted, I know squat about game design from a technical standpoint). I'd hope it would be gone with the battle reform... because it would only get worse with auto attack.

More likely it's not been addressed so far because it's not easy to solve at all. Enabling the players to move during an animation would likely require SE to remake most if not all of the animations. That is not feasible at this point in development, where they need to get the game to a playable (and billable) state ASAP.