Yeah, Huraijin is pretty stupid button bloat and I think it's rarher obvious that they just didn't know what to do with NIN in EW. Even on long transitions in SHB you could always keep Huton up, be it by capping on the duration before downtime or just using a ninjutsu charge which would've clipped the cd mid-way through anyways. Now we have Huraijin which you pretty much never want to use and had to pay some of the maximum Huton duration for it.

Sure, it makes deaths less punishing, but it was never such a big issue to begin with - most jobs get punished by deaths to a degree, I don't think that should be seen as such a horrible thing. I always felt much worse about missing the TA window and misaligning its cd when I died, than about having to "waste" ninjutsu on Huton, but wouldn't want to see that "solved" in some stupid way either.