This is a different topic, but I fully agree. The old SR glyph was the perfect solution; it took away a lot of the clunkyness (buzzword), it lowered the skill-ceiling a wee bit, it took away some of the "awkward!" moments.
The new one is just weird. Fluid while questing, weird for anything else. Plus it puts a lot of focus on the opener. Feral vs Feral - you get the opener, you are miles ahead. Let's not even start a racial discussion here (nelf vanish)