I too wish that animations were at least advanced a little bit. The only excuse I could see for the way things are is if they have plans to raise the cap to rank 57249651 so abilities slowly progress till they're worthy of being cool looking.

My biggest complaint is with the lancers abilities all look like skewer (even Chaos thrust which is supposedly a multi hit weapon skill) and spells like flare.

I'd also like to point out that I don't believe there is even a dev tag for this and I believe it's something that developers should be at least taking notice.