If its all about "reliving the old" please take out /melody. This will combat the problems that this class has rougher than others in a boxed situation. Better yet, make it an AA in a later expansion. Make main bards valuable again.
I don't think most main bards would want to go back to the carpal-tunnel days of twisting. If they do, they can manually click their songs. Even if they disabled melody, players could circumvent it with built in mouse/keyboard software that will run keypress macros. Thank goodness the dev already responded with an appropriate answer. Asking to remove QoL features because someone walked uphill both ways in the snow back in the day is a D@#k move.