It's a PvP only change, but even then it's so weird. FoE was never so strong it needed a nerf. It didn't outright stop damage like Ninja and you give up dmg for it while DRG simply existing is mitigation dmg.

But, I gave up on SE making meaningful changes to jobs back when they nerfed Stoneskin on the account that they felt it would make WHM mandatory, and then gave AST a 20% balance and 170% Noct shield.