I'm of the thought positionals will just be scrapped entirely at somepoint soon. more and more bosses and encounters don't have them anyways. and the impact from hitting them or missing them is borderline immeasurable..

A ninja missing positonals on armor crush loses a staggering 2 potency per second over the duration of an encounter. it's virtually inquantifiable as any dpsvariation you saw on a parse from such a deviation would just fall under "margin of error" allowed for rng crits, directs, latency etc,

between more and more encounters hving no positionals and hit boxes that cover 3/4 of the arena and the total lack of impact landing a positional actually has. id put money on them being scrapped entirely before long in the pursuit of accessibility and ever closing the skill gap.