I completely agree with the original poster about the coolness of the original way the Project animation looked. I posted something similar on the Sage forum. I don't think there is much impact from a Shadow's perspective, but it does change the pleasure of the skill animation from a Sage's perspective. If the goal is to speed up the skill activation then there must be another way to do it, such as assigning the damage at the beginning of the skill activation, or something like that. BW is creative, they can figure out how to make that work alternatively. BW please give us back the original Project animation. It is my favorite skill in the game
Also regarding it's lore parallel, there are many other things in this game that are not exactly like the movies, but BW has taken artistic license. That is Ok to do. Luke levitated an X-Wing, C3PO in a chair and rocks on Dagoba - close enough for me