To be fair that’s an acknowledged bug. Apparently something was fundamentally changed with many talents that interact with “attacks”, and now any ticking dot counts as an “attack”.
It also has the hazardous side-effect of making Kinetic Flayer randomly proc from spreading soublaze dots even if you don’t directly attack the elite/special, so now you can have it accidentally spread on to a DH, or a pox burster, and proc a brainburst all by itself without you ever touching these enemies. This has made Kinetic Flayer particularly dangerous to use.