Bountiful Theft?
It just wasn’t designed that way… Should have been but wasn’t…
It’s prolly the same reason anet does half the stuff they do… They had an idea, they thought it was cool, they added it to the game without thinking it through properly…
This always bothered me that they never addressed this. Inconsistencies between 2 skills that do that same.
However if it is deliberate I suspect it may be because of the sharing aspect of the trait. Taking say 25 might from 1 enemy and giving it to your whole team essentially seems a bit much. But this could allow thief a more important team role that thieves are lacking being a more selfish class.
I do hope it is just an oversight though as it would be nice for it to function as we expect it to. The sharing range is rather small anyway and in its current state it only really is useful as a strip, I think most would like the might stack steal but that opens another problem with power creep since everyone farts might like it’s going out of style.
Probably because it shares boons, but I know everyone would prefer this boon sharing to be removed in favor of it stealing stacks. (1 stack of 3 boons to team was worthless share anyway)