My thoughts as well. I thought I would bring it up simply because our team is barely getting by with the gold we have and now that we're finally out of Fort Joy so need everything we can get from fight to fight.
Kind of frustrating that the player in my group can't even participate in doing damage now until we find a suitable replacement. Would have been nice if they simply brought the damage down. Still puzzled as to why 'Single-Handed+1' remains on the weapon if it was a balance change.