Its stupid. They fixed what we already knew they would and brought back the ground game which is good! Only players that should be salty are hayate players losing 3k. I agree the patch is generally better.
Jokes aside I think that it's the initial reaction to the return of the stagger escape. I can't say if it's a good or bad thing, but I was sure that the glitch would have fixed, this property was changed during the production of the game for some reasons, hardly the developers would be back on their feet when this decisions was already taken long time ago...
Anyway from what I read (and understand) now , I think that you are right, alsot to me this patch seems better than the previous one (SE aside, already considered the best one)