Curiously, I'm having way, way more fun playing archer now than I did before.
I have a level 30 18/24 6 pd 8 wm 3 ath war bow archer alt, which isn't terrible but isn't particularly great post-patch.
I've been running a STF 30/12 10 pd 4 wm 0 ath long bow archer since the patch, which is launching high speed, super accurate tomahawk missiles.
I think the change will turn out not to be so bad, at least for dedicated archer builds.