I decided to roll-back to the previous patch as a temp solution, I have to do the befriend the ship questline, and do the ship battle again and the respec (ugh!) and book crafting stuff. But I do not intend to walk around nerfed especially when I made an extremely hybrid unoptimized non-powerplay party.
Unfortunately later saves are not compatible with the previous patch, this might be modifiable but given the highly cryptic encyclopedic save game format it has more potential break things.
Normally with all classic cRPGs I wait till the game stabilizes and avoid all this drama, but this is simply the perfect free-time for me to enjoy some RPG, I just want to play so bad.
Personally I am quite disappointed by Larian's take on these issues though. The game has been on early access for more than a year, and the last patch fixes some stuff (probably?), does not fix many things it claims to fix and even breaks certain things. I did not kickstart the game, but this is especially bad service to people who kickstarted the game.