Yeah, it’s Really bad. Now that they Finally fixed so that the +Life per Second works with the barrier, the pants itself are bugged. Was not fixed in todays patch, either.
That isn’t the point though. It shouldn’t matter only if it was a meta item. If you were leveling up and maybe trying to get into T1 and happen to get a temerity thinking its a good short term defensive option - and if it isn’t working as intended, especially on hardcore - then this matters. And even in the lategame, players could still try to experiment using temerity like using necro blood builds etc n whatever.
And coming from a console player, we can’t readily check the values of how much barrier we have, and typically trust the visual indicator entirely. That’s why I appreciated the OP for posting this and sharing.