Good leadership is still felt by the team, whether the leader is there or not.
The real issue is them getting lazy and creating uniques that function as leader abilities i.e. Chirrut granting a passive heal to everyone on the team whenever someone moves or R2 granting extra crit chance and accuracy. I think we might need a game wide overhaul of leaders some point soon because they've really started blurring the line.
I don't have any issue at all with some uniques getting activated upon death like with scarif granting a one time speed bonus when he dies. I'm not sure why you brought this issue up
