It's a strange one really, the last few Savage tiers seemed to suggest that SE had gone with the approach of baking damage down into vuln stacks.

Then EW rolls round and oh, all of that is gone again.

In fairness, I can see the reasoning behind both approaches. At the end of the day this game does a terrible job of conveying how good or otherwise one's damage output is. I suspect a good portion of the player base simply wouldn't notice their personal damage tanking right up until the 0s started scrolling past their face. It makes more sense in Savage given that it's much more impactful there. We'll see for sure next week.