In the future? What about now? It will affect things such as pve clear speeds and especially pvp.
HOTA barbs with shakos or grandfather swords ( increases critical strike damage by 100%) one shotting all others. I’d say +4 to all skills, damage reduction, +high life, cooldown reduction and resource regeneration does affect a build. No other Helm or weapon offer this much advantage in game.
But Activion would rather keep 142 players happy with that decision than the rest of us…fair right?