Path of Exile Dev Tracker

At a base level, it's considered good for bonuses to be better with some things than other things. Generally speaking there will be different bonuses that are better with those other things instead, which helps make different builds feel different, and have people make different choices about how they value things depending on what their character is doing.

I'm not trying to tell you you're doing it wrong, I'm trying to get you to think more about the design of specific game aspects and how they interact with other game aspects.

We already do think a lot about those aspects. In all the cases you list, there has been a discussion, in some cases a long back and forth one, possibly trying several versions and seeing how they play, about the specific nature of different ways to accomplish what certain stats are trying to do and which one is the best fit for the design intent for what that specific stat is trying to achieve.

IMO it’s silly to argue that while a skill is being channeled, it’s not being “used”. A character that is cycloning through enemies is certainly “using” the cyclone skill to hit the enemies, no?

No-one is arguing that. You are using the skill - once. The fundamental point of channelled skills is that one use of the skill lasts as long as you hold down the button, rather than lasting for a fixed cast/attack time before the finish using the skill (and can use it again or use another skill).

Those bonuses are explicitly not "gain X constantly while you are using the skill" (some other bonuses are like this), they are "gain X when you use the skill". This is definied as happening at the point where you change from not using the skill to using it - i.e. when you start using it. But it's fundamentally tied to uses of the skill. If you use the skill once, you get the bonus once, regardless of how long it takes to do that. If you're cursed with te...

We are reverting this sound back to the original pre-3.8.0 version.