The way I see it, people wanted archery nerfed until only the skilled are effective at using it. Throwing should be no more or less.
I was an archer and I thought that the nerf was needed. It was simply a sniper rifle with enough WPF pre-patch. Now it needs more skill simply because the shoot speed got lowered which means u can't pin point shoot somebody but you need to "lead" him in order to hit a running target.
1)Throwing weapons have a shitty range so you can't own the whole map with it by just camping like xbows/archers can.
2) the gravity is terrible for throwing, you need to compensate a LOT (and I know what I'm talking about I have a dedicated thrower and I'm using throwing axes a lot) and I'm not talking about the crappy accuracy!
3) even with 11 PT and over 100 WPF in throwing with my dedicated thrower I'm almost never in the top of the scoreboard. I'm slow as hell and once somebody is in melee range I'm pretty much ****ed. And that's if I'm not already shot down by archers/xbows or other throwers.
In resume, for throwing to be really effective, you need to invest a lot of points into PT and throwing WPF so your really slow and you suck at melee, hell archers with no wpf and PS are owning my ass cuz they are swinging too fast! If you get killed by a throwing projectile it's either a lucky shot or cuz you asked for it (like walking straight to a thrower).