Did you even read the OF thread? NA people are whining about this too. This also happens regardless of whether I'm playing on JP or NA servers with no noticeable differences.
I live in Europe and I have been playing WoW, TERA, GW2 and many other MMOs on NA servers (sometimes West Coast servers) for years and this is the only game where everything that's happening on my screen feels completely disjointed and useless. It has to be their network code or their engine being plain terrible. Neither would be easy nor cheap to fix at this point, which is why I'm not expecting changes.
Try actually testing the AoEs and the circles instead of immediately running out of everything and then tell us again how the current system does not warrant complaints. The AoEs from the beta can be worked around because they take forever to go off. Things do not bode well for endgame encounters if this isn't addressed, however. It's going to be Garuda p2 all over the place.
Yes.