I'm fine with Hagakure going away. I don't think starting a fight with 2-3 send is clunky either, I actually think it's pretty straight forward.

Shoha is meh, sigan is still there. It is what it is. I'm going to enjoy Sam more than I did. I'm hoping they change the encounters more... As the repetitiveness of them from ARR to Stormblood drove me away from the game. The only thing that kept me coming back from time to time in SB was the story.