Renegade MM Kinetic Discharge causes Pause in Attack Animation

[PurpleTimb]

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.

[Wipey]

I'd like to bump this. Any pause is super annoying like Ascendance, Slaying Arrow, Divine Cleansing and many more.
But active combat ability with this "feature" like Crusader cleave, Ear Smash or Kinetic Discharge is clunky, annoying or downright bad.

There was thread long time ago by Rys with list of abilities that "work" this way too.

[ForgettableNPC]

It's similar to the delay seen in using Whirlwind Attack with anything but unarmed.
I submitted a bug report like the first week it came out, so it's probably in that "to fix" list somewhere.