I find them kind of annoying and don't believe they really add anything, but I generally don't really care if they stay or if they are removed. They do add a level of need to pay attention of when and where to use true north, but at the same time the differences between managing true north on sam and on drg are night and day, though I don't think I'd care as much about positionals on drg if they weren't literally back to back abilities.

So ya, I'm kind of whatever about them. They annoy me on certain jobs and on other jobs its stupid easy to get around them. I personally don't think they will be around in 7.0 though and mechanics will just add more scenarios to push melee away from the boss instead of just mechanics that make doing positonals annoying.