Concerns about " Getting rid of unused and ineffective actions"

[ZhaneX]

I'd say you're kind of going full-tilt conspiracy here.

At the Fan Fest, when discussing 4.0, they mentioned how they would be doing an overhaul of the battle system. The only facet of this which was elaborated at the time was "Reassessment of unused and ineffective actions". Nothing was said as to out-right "Getting rid" of anything. Perhaps they will, but that does not seem to be the intent they're going in with.

Your last paragraph especially is utter paranoid nonsense. Fire 1? Combo Sets? Nothing about any of these are in any way "Unused" or "Ineffective". Also gimping the system for the sake of controllers certainly seems the furthest thing from their minds. If you paid attention to recent updates, then you might notice that in fact the dev team has been putting a good deal of effort into increasing the versatility of controllers and the cross hotbars they use.

In actuality, they gave several example skills that they were looking at for reassessment. These included Marauder's Fracture and Lancer's Feint. Which, evident from your "little essay" are not even skills you find yourself concerned with. So please, do not so readily believe that the devs would plot to gut their own game, and perhaps take a moment to think and study what is known before partaking in pointless paranoia.