How would it feel if instead of kaiten, shinten was gone?

[Shurrikhan]

It'd still be a blow, but a lesser one so long as they gave further use cases for Kaiten (rather than allowing its ppgcd to dip even below Gyoten, as would be the case if Kaiten were left as is despite this).

But, while it's a decent little thought experiment, the ultimatum is a false one, anyways. SAM had no "action bloat", there were far better choices for consolidation if button bloat were the "cause", and Kaiten wasn't merely a bloated extra action but instead Kenki's keystone element.

Felt better when the reward was Seigan instead of just bonus kenki, but still.

I miss the bonus animations, and therefore would also have been cool with Shinten simply upgrading into Seigan and Kyuten into another upgraded-by-proc skill, but the Kenki generation is far more flexible than only being able to spend that bonus potency towards reducing the cost of our next single-target Kenki filler.