Keep overpower cone shaped!

[Iscah]

Many more of these recent changes just seem to come entirely out of left field: the other day I ended up in the Aery in a roulette and noticed they removed the disappearing platforms on the last boss (Hraesvelgr)... I was literally lost for words... Was that really ever a problem for anyone in recent years? Really? I mean, I guess it required the tank to think about positioning, so it just had to go...?

You're confusing the Aery with Sohr Khai, but anyway. The change was made at the same time they introduced duty support NPCs for 2.0 duties, so it's assumed that they're changing it in preparation to add support for those duties as well. The NPCs might not be able to handle the variable path as the number of platforms changes, or maybe teaching them to do it would be more time than they want to spend on a single fight.

It's not like you could fall off the old platforms anyway, when the wind jumps just took you to the next safe platform, and the boss dies too fast to worry about positioning anyway.