Or is it more that they hope that brand new players simply won't know about animation cancelling/weaving (as opposed to slotted skill options) and so, will be easier to gank?
If animation cancelling was removed then abilities like Elemental Weapon and the ones that empower your light attacks (Mage's guild stuff and empowering chains off the top of my head) would be rendere
it would be more like 90% for and 10% against animation cancelling. <img class="emoji" src="https://forums.elderscrollsonline.com/resources/emoji/smile.png" title=":)" alt=":)" height="20" />