I was expecting them to be reworked. Moving away from the annoying, badly designed, stun opener mechanic and compensating elsewhere. I guess BW just don't have the flair.
I'd like to know the reasoning behind the new set of nerfs. I stopped worrying about Ops a long time ago, decent ones are so rare, and even they only exist to gank existing 1v1's. I'd have to agree they seem to just want to kill them off. Lazyness and unimaginative. Sad inditement of the game's future.