The problem is the balance team has zero clue what they are doing.
We know that dex-players and healers(foc) are the main cluster groups (biggest population) due to imbalance. But, they would rather artificially try to bring down those clusters by these methods instead of balancing correctly. We see it everywhere, instead of properly balancing weapons, the just make it so if they want more people to play healer, they’ll just make a boss drop a BiS Life staff, or make dex/foc just outright more costly, etc, etc… LOL!