Yeah, I can understand why the dev team isn't interested in officially publishing numbers, even if it would provide an avenue for interested players to critique their own performance and grow stronger with it.

If you think that burst windows are a 'restriction' now, they still were back then. There is always an optimum time to place that burst window. What has changed is:
  • It's more obvious when that burst window is supposed to occur (what's the LCM of our recasts again?)
  • It tends to get set up without any real coordination or pre-planning
  • It's longer, allowing you to be less precise with your button inputs
  • It's less powerful than it used to be

In short, they took something that occurred typically at slightly higher levels of play in coordinated groups and made it accessible and forgiving so that anyone can do it on the fly. Just because the average PF player who used to freestyle burst is actually conscious about it doesn't mean that anything has changed.

If they wanted to really throw a wrench into it, we'd just have an assortment of different prime number recasts to deliberately mess with the alignment. But then you might as well stick with personal buffs and make this feel more like a single-player game. That will be next, the way the complaints are going.