Samurai have positionals?!

[Kolsykol]

I didn't even realize they had positionals until lv70.

Yeah I still don't care.
Still gonna get half of them just by sitting behind the enemy, damage difference in missing 5 kenki every twenty seconds is miniscule.
Actually, between normal build up and the skill that immediately grants 50 every minute, kenki builds up *so* fast that I keep forgetting to spam shinten just to dump it all. er, spam it even harder than I already do.

The point is that this is a you problem and you shouldn't be encouraging others to not do them.
If you're running into too much Kenki problems then it's also something you need to pay more attention to.

If you don't care then alright I guess, but it shouldn't be encouraged.
It's also not as simple really as just '' 5 extra Kenki '' as has already been explained before, there's more nuance to this and if you're not paying attention to your Kenki either then you can easily run into issues where you're missing Kaitens or don't have Kenki to charge in/ push yourself out and get extra gcd's in etc.

Edit: Really tho if you're drowning in Kenki as you're implying then yeah you really do need to be more active with Shintens, especially if you're not even doing the positionals and you're still having issues.
It sounds to me like you're ignoring the Kenki bar too and not just the positionals.

The problem arises when someone holds their GCDs back in order to hit a positional.
Just use the skill anyway. Delaying it costs you more DPS than missing a positional.

Yes but again that's not what people are actually arguing here, people are arguing in favor of deliberately not doing them altogether.
No one here is arguing that you should clip gcds to get a positional.