that's why i still use standard type controls, even though it's more difficult to avoid AoEs that way.

It isn't an issue for almost any other class either, since if you always stay at the same side of a monster and don't move much you'll always face the monster. So bards and tanks aren't affected, i don't know how much dragoons move around. But as a monk you constantly run from the back to the flank and the other way around, thus it's an issue if you don't auto attack during this movement.