At the end some of are happy and some are not. For majority of main smners, none of them would have taken this deal if it meant falling lower in output. This was bad class design; you alienated a portion of the actual player base that played smner to appease a majority of players that didn't main smner. The right way would have been to keep the class contribution the same and add complexity to justify it. No one asked at any time to become the caster equivalent of a physical range class.