I can also say without a doubt that it is the same experience for me. I am doing significantly less damage, missing way more attacks and taking way more damage than before this update in all daily planet heroic areas.
I thought the idea with this expansion was offering conquest gear for solo players to increase their character's power. Yet the second I do solo content, the level sync completely guts my accuracy, alacrity and crit. There really is no incentive to grind gear as a solo player now.