Well as of right now, I have no serious problems with BR. It is more effective than skill chains ever were, if done properly. There's a lot of minor problems, this issue being one of them, alongside some others like the lack of any cool visuals or indications of what is actually going on.

Been doing Eft parties on low level class and just started a 4 man all DPS group (All of us have r50 THM/CON or both for heals) on raptors. We each BR light attack/heavy attack and by the time the first BR is done the raptor is at half health and we all have enough TP to do another WS BR which finishes the job. Raptors die fairly instantly save the time initiating the BRs and getting TP. We were killing them about the same speed as a full party of r48-49s, while we were r40, r44-46. So, I'm not really arguing about the effectiveness of BR or trying to have a discussion about that...

I'm just entirely focused on whether auto attack will continue through BR. They've stated, as someone else in this thread, that they will not be making major changes to the BR system this patch; so, I'm just curious whether they've decided to allow auto attack or not during BR, and if not, why? I personally would be greatly in favor of having auto attack continue through BR, but if it doesn't I'm willing to hear good reasons .