I think that this post misses the point. We aren't upset because they removed our damage numbers. We're upset because they removed our damage options. If they just nerfed the skills we had I doubt there would have been nearly so much of a fuss. They can put that right without either increasing the damage being put out by parties as a whole or decreasing the damage of others.

And then there's the mess that is AST... if they don't do something about that... I don't know. It will make me lose a lot of faith in SE