It's got nothing to do about counters. It's more about the fact that you can stand on one side of the map and spam bombard and snare someone at the other side of the map.
The Bombard "nerf" has already failed. Yesterday in PvP it felt worse than before. Bombard spamming is still a thing. At least in combination with a zerg- induced lag.
Wrong. What they did, is made bombard not apply its root if the target is already snared. So basically it does only do its root if you gank a solo player, since there are so many snares in the game th
Bombard doesn't stun. What it does it applies a 3 second root, then followed by 5 second snare. Mobs have their AI programmed to sometimes dodge out of AoE, and seeing as dodge removes roots, the root