It’s objectively worse. To claim focus AOE is better touches on insanity. You can’t sit there with a straight face and claim being able to blow and go on tunnels of critters or packs of mammoths or w/e is WORSE than having to stop and wait for focus to regen before you AOE again, or single target and build up focus with SS before you AOE again - sometimes having to manually retarget.
How is that better? Explain it.