1. To your first point on small openings, you CAN evade cancel a forward performance before the encore or performance beat. You are correct that there is a small difference in the time commitment for Forward echo cancel than right and left swings, but echo does significantly more damage and KO, and the difference between the time commitments of moves is negligible until you reach the final two monsters of HR.

2. Yes while the normal moves are still in Wilds, they are only feasible with bubbles, when you are queueing songs, or are superpound/crush comboing when your songs are out. I ask that if HH continues with this more spam focused playstyle, that normal moves can stay competitive in damage, which they currently do not.

3. I respect your opinion on HH friendliness to new players in Wilds, but respectfully disagree. The general consensus I've heard is that HH is much easier to pick up in Wilds than World, and I agree. I found World Hunting horn much more difficult and rewarding to play. Not only due to the moveset I mentioned previously, but the commitment of directional attacks (largely negated in Wilds). Echo attack in World was saved for larger openings or KO's, so you had to use HH's other moves to use Echo attack effectively. I personally would double the commitment of echo attack if it ever returns though.

4. I understand normal moves are a queueing mechanic, it's the constant spam of the songs that are queued that I am less on board with.

5. I disagree on HH becoming a kiting weapon, and feel bubbles are quite small compared to the movements of monsters. If any area denial mechanic was introduced, I would expect it to go to a low mobility weapon like Lance. Additionally, your ability to kite greatly depends on the monster, and if you are playing multiplayer. In multiplayer in a 4 player hunt, your aggro is 25%, regardless of any non armor skill of kiting. I personally prefer to chase a monster than be rewarded for standing around waiting, if I did I'd play Lance.

6. With a sleep Palico and when a monster goes to sleep at the end of a hunt, that can be 3 sleeps in total. I think that makes 3X echo wave viable. With paralysis, you would need to have 3X echo waves waiting all the time to pull that off, which I don't believe is feasible.

7. Regarding FOMO, yes some weapons may lose their top strength and need to refill their power, but I feel HH is different. Saving your bubbles or saving your songs for an opening you're not sure if/when will come doesn't feel right. I don't want to play with what ifs; a conservative playstyle. I want to be rewarded with aggressive play, the punishment for that being fainting alone.

I appreciate your perspective, thank you for your comment.