From where I'm standing Jona, this patch sure doesnt pain me at all, so maybe you might feel a need to ignore the following but:
The difficulty increase was on average +4 STR pre-req.
It pushed only the high-end, 50+ armor rating to 19+ STR pre-req.
The common agility build have 18 STR and less, if you agree? Very few have more, except if high leveled.
So now the agility builds cant have access to all but the gothic plate, but at max the medium-heavy kind, which ironically increase their DPS but they can be killed a bit easier.
Thats all this patch does on armor really. I dont see it as ridiculous, but it of course force people to change, and in the current circumstances on this mod, it was predicted that there would be some backlash.
Maybe its because I'm now also working on this mod that I see things differently, but I cannot blame those still working on this mod on the pretense it is dead, I prefer to judge on the content.
Of course I'm aware that I'm wasting my time a bit here posting that, lots of people just dont care, but some people still do, and most of them are busy "further killing the mod" as some might say