- I'm on the boat that brd also plays clunky, but only because theyre sharing things similiar to mch with archer skills that it doesn't mix. It's more on that than it is being considerably different

- even in your dark arts example streamlining it like that, that's still more involved than ammo. Whether you consider it an annoyance or not (much like how some blms consider enochian an annoyance), that still speaks in spades to how it has an effect on drks gameplay. Ammo has much less influence on that with it ensuring a proc on something that has 50%, and very infrequently you'd hold off on using it because it's both a tp and dps loss otherwise.

-a8 isn't big enough to be out of range of its placed in the center, and while you have high mobility in a7s, you're still often confined to specific sides and areas for most of the fight. Not to mention that this is two (three if we count a2) fights out of the entire game to have turret placement matter as a job mechanic.