SAM is not dead (I haven't tested it yet but it sounds like the changes to crit/d-hit will make our heavy hitters feel powerful again, which is great) but we do still need Kaiten back. It added a certain rhythm to the way the job played and gave the Kenki gauge a purpose. Now all we use Kenki for is Shinten spam. Guren and Senei may as well not even be spenders because of their long and mutually exclusive CD.

I also still believe it was a mistake to turn Tenka Goken into a circular AoE. We have other cone/column attacks.

TL;DR SAM is not dead but it's not in the best state it could be. Hopefully in 7.0 it gets fixed somehow.