Skill: Rake Inconsistent dash distance

I am using a Rake-Disengage style gameplay loop but Rake doesnt seem to work correctly all of the time. Sometimes I can Dash halfway across the screen and other times I cant hit the mob 1 meter in front of me. Does Dash target where my mouse is or just the DIRECTION my mouse is? I am using WASD.

Rake feels good, but could use a heavier hit sound when it crits. Right now it just sounds the same as a miss.

I've been noticing this as well and it's particularly vexing as Rake is one of the main ways I bleed.

I'm not sure what it is with this skill.

From testing, it doesn't appear to require namelocking to dash/close over longer distances.

It sometimes seems to get stuck on possible ground debris, yet in other cases is able to travel around corners to dash to a target (e.g. just tested in Titan's Grotto and my character traced a curved arc around the bridge corner to reach a mob).

5 months later and nothing has changed.
I think part of the reason Rake feels so unbelievably clunky and disconnected is the strange auto-targeting system of POE 2.

Why can't I just dash and attack???

Rake as main skill is my second build in 0.3 and it makes me wanna rage quit half of the time.