Question/Observation About Absolution of Inspiring & Storm Call

I've been playing Path of Exile [1] for a bit over a year now, and I am having a complete blast every minute of playing.
Settlers was my first every league after playing a bit of Standard with my friends.
Ever since the end of Act 1 in my first playthrough, I started playing a Templar with Absolution, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.
It’s been such an enjoyable skill for me.

I’m writing to you because I recently stumbled upon something interesting while watching Palsteron’s video about Storm Call.
Storm Call and Absolution of Inspiring (AoI) have some strong similarities in certain aspects.
Storm Call scales with spell damage and skill effect duration, while AoI cares about minion damage.
However, both interact with Awakened Spell Cascade in a fundamentally different way, even though they should work as same as the other.

Here’s the key difference I found:
Storm Call’s Awakened Spell Cascade placements are fixed. This means with enough AoE, all Storm Calls can overlap, enabling both strong clear
and heavy single-target damage, especially with how efficient AoE scaling is in 3.26 for Casters (Flame Golem Buff)

AoI's cascade placements, on the other hand, are fluid. more AoE increases the spacing between the casts.
This makes it more skillful to position correctly for overlaps, especially on bosses.
You can even use reduced AoE (like Concentrated Effect) to achieve better overlaps for bossing at the cost of clear, which feels like an intentional, cool trade-off.

I just found it very interesting how Storm Call can achieve full overlap with AoE scaling (gaining both clear and bossing at once),
while AoI has this more nuanced and intentional-feeling trade-off between clear and boss damage.

I’m not upset or anything negative at all, I just wanted to bring this to your attention out of curiosity as someone who really enjoys all version of Absolution.
Was this an intentional design difference? Or just something that naturally emerged from how these skills are coded? I am just interested in the subject,
since my entire PoE 1 identity is Absolution.

Thanks so much for reading.
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