I completely agree with the author and fully support his position.
I knew this was going to happen even before the patch was released, and I actually wrote a post about it beforehand. I had already seen the previous patch from this same team, so I was very concerned about their approach. From what I saw, the current balance team simply does not seem to understand what they are doing or, more importantly, what they are trying to achieve with these changes.
Unfortunately, my concerns have now been proven correct.
I strongly support the author’s points and urge the developers to revert this patch. The changes are far too sweeping, and there was simply not enough testing and time spent evaluating their consequences before pushing them to live.
P.S. Here is my old post where I warned about this before the patch was released: