What is the deal with canceling abilities

MilosAoC

Ive been asking for a specific keybind option for canceling abilities for a couple months now.
In this most recent patch, a change was made so that escape no longer cancels spells that have already "incurred a cost".
This had the effect of bard melodies not being canceled anymore when you close a menu, which is great, but this has now ALSO had the effect that you cant cancel spells like blizzard (a spell you never want to fully cast), lovely serenade, and probably many more. I really hope this is not intended design.

What is intrepids stance on being able to cancel abilities? Do you want us to be able to cancel abilities? Cuz we can still cancel all bard dances by pressing block or auto attack and we can still cancel spells like slumber and marionette (which is great for mindgames).
If i just quickly want to pre-shield myself with the passive of lovely serenade that gives me a shield on the first tick, why should i have to sit through that entire ability now? Before i could cancel it and be on my way, now im stuck in a cast i dont wanna do.

I would love some clarification from intrepid on where they stand on this.

IMO everything should be cancelable.
Instead of doing this weird workaround to make escape not cancel bard melodies, why not just give us the option to rebind cancel cast? People were primarily annoyed their melody stopped when closing menus (by pressing escape). Not by the fact that they intentionally pressed cancel ability per se.

I understand that bard melodies are a bit of a weird one because its an always casting ability or whatever, but you can probalby code the cancel cast to only cancel the "actively casted" ability, or just code in some exception for bard melodies so they are not effected by the cancel cast mechanic.

Leiloni

They should just make Melodies something other than a channeled ability so we can all use Esc to cancel cast like every other tab target MMO.

Would it be an insane suggestion to just do it Aion-style and make Melodies a toggled ability?