I usually don’t weigh in on these issues but this really has removed one of the most engaging and versatile mechanics of the elementalist. Elementalist was designed as a high skill cap, high risk/reward class; Evasive Arcana was the ultimate culmination of this. It was amazingly fun and rewarding when used correctly to trigger fields, and the corner stone of many of our more entertaining builds (Both Staff Support and D/D might stack). Without meaningful auto-attacks the Elementalist is already behind the 8-ball and now without the fun aspect of EA we’re left with a boring and not particularly efficacious class.
I can understand the blast finishers were originally unintended, but they were great! Hopefully any dev reading this can appreciate the community response and realise what a great draw it was to the Elementalist class.