My biggest problem with Aug was never its thematics, or its super divisive nature regarding its ‘role’ and function in a group like so many complain about. It was always about how it felt as a stand-alone solo experience in contrast to how it felt inside m+ or raids.
Most of Dragonflight after Aug came out it always felt… lackluster in world content, never really feeling like a good choice in comparison to Dev or even Pres since both had access to disintegrate.
I really feel like with Chronowarden it feels very good to play in all content now, between Chrono Flames and the extra free Chrono Flames per empowered cast I think it has largely solved the bad feeling/weak feeling solo issue that kept me away from playing it outside of swapping from Dev when it was needed.
All this post is really is just saying good job on Chronowarden really, it’s made Aug feel good to play all the time instead of just raid time or dungeon spam.