come on, they cant have EVERYTHING perfect. Making it this way, i feel, is the best shot at knocking out multiple birds with a less amount of Stone Throwing. If no one is happy, what do you suggest they did instead? And dont worry about taking 7 months to think about it, since it is likely SE thought long and hard about this as well.
We got through their other changes, namely AOEs and Blink, Fuidama Nerf, Penta Nerf, and everything else, including changing location of Astrals, so its likely that we'll survive this as well