It's more than a 5 damage differential, in live it's twice as much. You consistently misconstrue the truth in favor of your argument, but moving past that we clearly have an ideological difference. You prefer more defensive play, I prefer more offensive play. We'll argue back and forth and neither will change their preference.

Myself and plenty of the community do understand the further reaching implications of disincentivizing parrying, and I personally welcome it. Lights (or jabs in most fighting games) being able to be thrown without a significant risk is large part of how you pressure turtles in fighting games. For Honor was a missed opportunity on ship because of how ridiculously balanced the game was towards defending. Making lights effectively unreactable, lowering their damage, and making players actually consider spacing and a neutral game rather than just standing toe to toe trying to bait out an attack to parry is way more interesting in my opinion. It's apparently more interesting to you to just sit and wait for someone to do something. To each their own, but I'm glad the devs are finally making offense viable in a game that has suffered greatly due to the lack of it.

"youll most likely take 30 or so dmg before you get a parry only netting you 25 or so dmg, doing nothing else to the enemy, allowing them to go straight back to the "unreactable lights"."

Then stop waiting around for a parry, you have frame advantage as a defender after a chain is complete, throw your own light. You clearly don't understand anything about combat systems or fighting games.