... The enjoyment of a CC tournament that less than ~100 people will take part in, over the enjoyment of PVP in general for the rest of the playerbase.
The fact that Yoshi P confirmed this, and that they didn't make any real meaningful changes earlier in the expansion until it's too late is disgusting. The fun and enjoyment of 100 people is more important than you and your sub fee. They should be ashamed of this decision and I hope the player numbers and PVP stats show them how bad it was.
If PVP outside of CC is a dumpster fire, then either create two different move and rule sets or fix it entirely and tell the CC tournament people to suck it up and adapt, which seeing as they are pros and take the game seriously should be able to handle just fine. I'm sure some of those people participating in the competition would even agree with me, that they are capable of handling changes and nerfs and would balance their team and play style accordingly if it meant the rest of the game was less terrible for the majority of people who pay to play it.