Aren't ballista designed to counter siege weapons though?
While Coldharbour ballista do a decent chunk of damage to players, it's not specifically designed to kill people either, it just became that way because of how underperforming Catapults were earlier in the game's life cycle that ballista became the go to counter siege weapon.
Now that catapults are actually useable against players though, I don't see the need to buff ballista anymore. It's still a good counter siege weapon, just not the end all be all that it used to be.