I'm not arguing there was zero clunk, just that I remember less in those days than in SHB and onwards. I think I've ghosted more actions in SHB and EW than all of ARR/HW/SB because of Seraph. The only thing you list that I'd fully agree was pure garbo clunkjank was Dissipation, and it still is to a degree

Maybe I'm just bad at SCH and it's user error who knows