I also made this forum account solely to support the reversal of these changes. Please do not remove Kaiten!

My fellow Samurai mains already made very good points in this thread, so I'll keep this brief.

Kaiten is too iconic to delete. There should be more ways to spend Kenki, not less. The changes to the Gekko/Kasha positionals and the Kenki cost reduction of Guren/Senei were tolerable but removing Kaiten makes Kenki management near non-existent. As far as action bloat goes, yes, SAM is a busy job during burst windows. But it's also very fun to execute correctly.

Wildly fluctuating dps due to crits is nothing new. What should have been looked at is the potency distribution across SAM's skills or even the crit stat itself. A lot of jobs have hard hitting abilities where crits can make a huge difference. Should we expect auto-crits for Double Down, Akh Morn, Hyosho Ranryu or Communio as well? Locking SAM out of contributing to raid buffs will make it feel worse.