IMHO, the logic is that portions of the population are more vocal than others and become rather loud whenever they don't get like the way things are going (Believe me everyone that uses forums regularly already knows you aren't happy about Heavy Attacks) and if you've got enough of them it's easier just to break the thing…
On HA sets they ADD - work only on monsters as example ! So not the best sets, that was good because it was universal stop work in PVP. They do not even stop on that ! They remove DK HA buff and made empower work only on monsters too. That already for DK was lose of 90% of HA damage in PVP ! But it is not all, they remove…
While I agree that your philosophy on how nerfs should work is in line with my own, the reality of the situation is that ZOS thinks differently. Other games start out strong but dealt with power creep by raising the maximum level or making gear obsolete and needing higher level requirements in later expansions, or made it…