A good chunk of the fights in the game don't even have any CC in them and most of them don't have a significant amount. It's really just specific fights that are causing people trouble, which is why it's important to understand how to mitigate CC for those fights.
They appear to have made it so that all shields provide magic armor in addition to the armor they provided before so now we have reliable access to magic armor earlier. This should smooth out the early play experience for most now.
