This thread is getting suuuuper off-topic, let's try to keep it to patch notes related stuff.
This is what really gets me. Min-maxers seem to be dominating every aspect of balance and design in this game, which really shouldn't be happening. Some things are meant to be better than other things, I mean there's a Buffalo Mk.II for that reason.
(Just had to chime in: as with all things, there is a balance. It's useful to think of min-maxing when you're doing design because that's what the game will naturally drive players to do. That doesn't mean all players will play that way, it just means they'll be incentivized to, and so overall will generally be more likely to. If we want a wider variety of playstyles to occur naturally, ideally they'd all be viable with a mini-maxed approach.
On the flipside, it is a single-player game, so we don't have to be as stringent about it as we would for a multi-player game. There, "viable" means "can compete vs the best". Here, "viable" can just mean "gets the job done and is fun to play". So, there's more leeway to do fun things.)
