You’re right, they made it easier… If it takes 500 drops to get your one specific item, then on the previous season you’d get that 1 to 3 times a day… But they didnt really make these items any easier to get, instead, they made significantly fewer drop so its significantly harder to get that drop, but then… because they make certain affixes roll with a temper more often and others (the ones we want) less often, we still have a high risk of going through all 6 of our tempers chances and not getting what we want. I do also believe that they made it more rare to roll high on those stats too, so you will mostly get lower rolls when those stats show up. This was also done with aspects on gear!
They made everything much harder, but sold us on it being better and easier…