Ethereal Knives no longer leaving Lingering Blades in 3.23

Hi! Posting about the change to Ethereal Knives making it no longer leave Lingering Blades. I know it doesn't get used as much for, say, Blade Blast as Bladefall does, however, it is losing its primary use case: as a tool to use Animate Weapon at early levels!

I was excited to try Animate Weapon with either of the new transfigured versions and was content to level with it knowing that it's available at level 4, however I then noticed that EK will no longer be creating the blades necessary to use it. This makes Animate Weapon very difficult to use until level 28 when the player acquires Bladefall. Could I convince you to have this change reversed? I just really prefer getting my desired build/playstyle going as soon as possible and wasn't really keen to fall back on Summon Raging Spirits until most of the way through Act 3, haha.

Otherwise it seems like I'll be buying and dropping weapons from vendors, or picking up common items on the way to the encounters, to fight the act bosses, and that doesn't sound very fun either!

bladefall also doesn't leave lingering blades

It does, what was changed is it "no longer creates 50% fewer Lingering Blades when not cast yourself"

nah i tried it, didnt leave lingering blades.

Bump because why the hell would you ruin animate wepaon leveling like that.

Yes, but the updated version "no longer creates 50% fewer Lingering Blades when not cast yourself" makes it sound different.