I’ve read only the announcement, not the comments, properly — sorry if I skipped something substantial.
In short: sounds great (looks like they have been paying attention to problems or feedback such as this), and at the very least it’s a good sign that the developers acknowledge the existence of the problems (fundamental design problems, not just balance issues), which is the first step to overcoming them, I suppose. As for the actual implementation — remains to be seen, so I don’t wanna jump to conclusions here.