Most likely the Devs will remove anything tied to the gauge.

Cover - completely reworked again.
Shelton - on a 25s timer.
Increase auto attacks potency.

If FoF is removed just means another increase to potency on everything and possibly atonement removed as well since the Devs definitely want pld to focus primarily on magic now. In return increasing confet combo immensely. Which would feel nice I would assume.

Who doesn’t like big numbers?

Defensively? No idea what they would have planned.