Ya know, I realized a detail I think was the main point of why I loved the old sounds. Yoshi-P said he'd make it feel like the classic FF8 trigger pull, so you'd use a skill and then pull the trigger for the intense blow up effect. The original way we had continuation worked that way.

The GCD was just a regular hit, but the continuation portion of it was like the "BOOM" of it. It followed the idea of the renzokuken combo by being a combo in itself.. but it also followed the basic attack from FF8 where you could feel the slash followed up with a hard hit. The old sounds separated those nicely, so you could appreciate the slashes then WAM right into the ability. New ones are all nothing but "WAM's" except... because of that, it's all just not satisfying, it'd be like if you pulled the trigger every mili second, it gets old and rusty... you don't sense the portions of it that feel satisfying anymore.

Also I sent in another in-game suggestion showing them this thread and the poll itself. So... here's to hoping ya know?