I think we’re also arguing a bit between mobility vs. speed.
In the PvE content I do, if we have a long stretch of ground to cover, I’m often one of the last ones there. Not necessarily the last one, but among the last. We don’t have a lot of things that grant us raw speed.
However, during combat, my ability to be somewhere else at a whim (blink/shimmer, alter time, the insanely rare occasion I take displacement) and my ability to make micro adjustments while casting (ice floes, slipstream) makes mechanics that other casters tend to struggle with complete non-factors for me. I have a tendency to not realize where mobility-based pain points are because they almost don’t affect me.
On top of the fact that our AoE rotation requires minimal - if any - hard casting.