Animation lock still kills you and also if you move to cancel spell too late it will still cast anyway due to the stupid lag. So I still simply do not cast at Ifrit until he has used an ability, just like before.

Also, if you don't move enough it will not cancel too. Whole movement cancel thing is iffy and needs improvements even now. It just cannot stay like this for 5 months, will be VERY annoying. They need to start by removing the second-button-hit-cancel and continue from there. Asap.