Where is fun in 7.05 VPR?

[Wayfinder3]

Also, no matter how "little" skill you needed for NG, you can't deny that playing the class you now need even less skill. If it was so unimportant and barely did things, then it would not have needed to go, no?

There it is, the crux of the issue. You're upset the floor of the job is lower than you would like it to be. You want to be THE viper and thats probably true of most of the people complaining here and in like 10 other threads spawned daily from people who are upset that the gap between them and mediocre vipers is now not as big.