Quote Originally Posted by Supersnow845 View Post
I’ve never understood the logic of “if you don’t like it don’t press it” (this is entirely independent of Kaiten)

I mean every button is theoretically optional but we still flame cure 1 spammers and hakaze spammers

In a game with solved static rotations nothing is actually optional unless you are happy with your party members just being leeches
It's more of a gradation rather than a simple "don't like it don't use it". The loss of not using Kaiten and using it on Shinten instead was only a handful of potency per minute, while spamming Cure I is straight up ignoring the rest of the kit. Where that line between "unacceptable play" and "acceptable play" is will vary from person to person and party to party. I'm not gonna yell at someone for parsing green, even if that's a sign that they're not playing their job particularly well. As long as the Samurai is doing above tank levels of damage in casual content I won't complain.

Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
????? How is that problem solved? I used kaiten every time it was a damage boost because I want to play optimally despite thinking it had a stupid animation and was a waste of a keybind.
Hence the qualifier of "and didn't care that you'd be doing less damage". If you do want to do top damage, then use everything in the kit to its fullest, otherwise complaining about it sounds like you want the rewards without the same effort. Stupid animation is also highly subjective and most of Samurais kit has over the top unrealistic animations made based on anime/pop culture tropes.

Quote Originally Posted by HikariKurosawa View Post
Wanna know how the problem was solved? The dev team removed the button. There are very few people who actually fit into this "and didn't care that you'd be doing less damage" category
And in turn made the new problems of Shinten spam and a meaningless Kenki mechanic. As for the not caring about doing less damage, the average expert party I end up in seems to be counter to that with how long pulls go for; people just try their best with the tools they've got, if they find something annoying to do, they just don't do it. People only truly care for subpar damage when doing extreme and up.