Larian Studios Forums Divinity: Original Sin 2 Divinity - Original Sin 2 - General Initiative, how it works now?

I really don't get how people think it's a useless stat..? The way I see it, it's a complementary value to damage dealing builds with the nice sideeffect of being able to move earlier in turn order - is this not the case? Furthermore there are tactical options enabled through this like skipping a turn and being able to act two turn in a row for instance.

I play on tactician/honour mode primarily so I am quite happy the turn order is distributed over all characers in the encounter: it adds to the challange and I get to see all the baddies capabilities.