At this point this feels like the BLM designer is spiteful of the players that enjoy the job.

Firt 6.0 brought uneeded changes that were all for the worse, destroying the amazing design of EW BLM just to destroy non-standard in it's entirety, not caring how it would affect the vast mayority of BLm players that might not even know non-standard existed.

By 6.1 they did kinda fix this mess, lowering the level of umbral soul and adding insta cast despair which opened the door to completly new optimization.
...
So they saw the people rebuild non standard and decided to burn everything to the ground until not even the husk of BLM is left.

Whoever did this just didn't like BLM nor understood why people liked BLM, I find many people recognize that BLM is not for them and they don't enjoy it's playstyle, but still respected it as good and interesting dssign that filled a niche. Seems the devs don't understand this concept at all.