If someone came to me and said we need something to help the warrior/knights with closing in on enemies and prevent them from kiting you all day, the first thing that would come to my mind would be, give them something like hydraulic override. Give it a more suitable name and another animation and you're done
Out of 20 pages of comments I have only seen 2-3 positive comments, the rest of them are negative. Even though I know not everyone is expressing their opinions here it gives you some indications on how well these new changes have met the expectations of the player base.
I personally would rather have seen the developers had spent their time on balancing the classes, listening to what the players really want, explain more clearly why some decisions are made or not made ( like why the old annihilation gameplay that everyone want won't be coming back) and make some new endgame content with well thought out mechanics rather then to focus their time on new story content.