The amount of AP you got was tremendously overpowered, though, that's why they are lowering them. They can easily tweak rogue's abilities to use less AP if that proves to be problematic for the balancing of the "class". It needed a huge nerf across the board.
This is just my personal opinion, but even if they tweak the damage, and allow you to attack twice per AP, I just don't think it will FEEL like a Rogue if they get the same amount of AP per turn as a fighter.
