Conclusions:

It has been less than a week since 6.1 launch and some may say what I am experiencing now are the growing pains of change and that perhaps in a couple of months time I will feel perfectly content with these changes. But as someone who has loved SAM from moment one of touching it, the new changes confuse me as the flow and feel of SAM has been changed significantly with the removal of Kaiten. And although Midare and Ogi now always crit, the job just feels... worse to play on a fundamental level. Both in solo and in group gameplay settings. And I personally doubt these feelings will just go away with time. At the moment Shinten spam for me does not fill the hole left by Kaiten's removal and I hope to see it brought back in the future. I also hope they revert the auto crits on midare and ogi (and for that matter take it off WAR too), so I won't feel bad joining groups with a DRG, SCH, or DNC. I fully understand the well intentions of the dev team with these changes to make SAM more accessible and more consistent but ultimately I strongly disagree with them and hope to see SAM restored in the future.

Thank you all for taking the time to read my thoughts and opinions I hope you have a wonderful day!