I guess some people are truly irked by any reduction in cluster-smashing. I couldn't care less what an energy blaster knocks about, it's neat to see. I can taunt, hop, blast, hold, teleport, or pull any knocked back MOB at will.
Barring peace bringer super stomp, KB in this game is fine. What ,exactly, is so terrible about it?
I have yet, since issue 3, encountered any real discontent with it. Rare, and I do mean rare, comments from a single person, perhaps once a year. So you're scrapping a boss that gets KBd? Hop over. So you're tanking foes that get KBd? Taunt em, hop and attack. So you're blasting foes that get KBd? Yeah, so? Blast more. So, you're controlling foes that get KBd? So? They're still under your thumb.
So your zergfest clear time slows down? Ah, now we see. I see no reason to meta-change a core apart of the game for the few reasons I see proffered, in all the time I have seen them. I'd welcome a restatement of factual reasons why KB is so terribly DooOOooOoommmMMmm. So we can discuss and I can argue counterpoint, refuting them.
Which is why I'll say again, KB is fine as is, no change vote.