I agree there shouldn't be any further nerfs before DF. Surely for DF there have to be; A6S silence e.g. and idk if Blaster in A8 also needs it.

My group is midcore and we just start on Vortexer in A6 and the problem I see is:
1) the story mode takes away the will to raid from those that did Coil for story
2) Gordias was a wall when you came from casual raiding, aka the difference of normal to Savage was riddiculous high especially given the DPS checks and A3S demotivated many
3) People think midas same wall or hit A6 and get demotivated again

I enjoy Midas pacing so far even when A6 is annoying with having to do the earlier "bosses" over and over again DX