The Tier Two enhancement from Renegade Mastermaker 'Kinetic Discharge' seems to cause a pause in the attack animation. The ability appears to use the same animation as cleave, but unlike cleave the activation interrupts the attack animation and causes a short (~1/2 sec. to 1 sec.) pause in attacking. This seems to me to be the same pause that the feat cleave used to have prior to it being reworked several years ago.

Have others seen this same behavior? Is this intended?

Using this ability feels like a net loss of DPS as I'm missing at least one full attack swing during this pause.