Quote Originally Posted by Vendalwind View Post
Most likely it's to compensate for having ninjutsu take up GCD space. A two step ninjutsu is now already more time consuming than a single GCD so effectively every ninjutsu moved onto the GCD costs 2 of what would ahve originally been GCDs.

Thus removing a two step gcd combo done once every 24 ish seconds (comparable to ninjutsu 20 seconds easily with kassatsu included) is a somewhat fair trade. Point being, keeping track of dots that are combo linked while also having ninjutsu on the GCD would result in a LOT less AE if not for the change.
True, while the mudras themselves seem to be just as fast, those wait times between combos and ninjutsu sequences are gonna add up quite a bit.