I would actually say this is a ranged buff, if you actually know what you are doing of course. I played for a little while and still did fine with my archer (I am out of practice in archery and not in the right mind-set), adapting is a good idea with this patch. You essentially 1-hit kill everything with bows to the head now even with barbed arrows, so just learn to aim for the head, archery accuracy got buffed.
On the 2h swing revert, as Vibe said it was put in place to stop the hiltslash, but it broke all aspects of the 2h right swing. Just to list some things it broke:
- Kick slash with right swing became almost impossible
- Right Swing was easily spammed
- Animation of chamber for right swing "flicked" and looked silly
- Chamber blocking timings became incredibly different (this was a slight buff since it spent longer in the chamber position)
Also those criticising the revert did not notice the note afterwards which said "increased block stun for right swing" which kept the hiltslash nerfed. So the revert was to change so that they nerfed only the hiltslash and not everything else.