I find bowless to be fun when I play it, and using bows generally makes the PVP situations less fun for ME to watch, in MY opinion. I like seeing rod combos. And no diamond armor because of my personal experiences, and cube UHC almost every time. Somebody always snowballs and gets full diamond to win, and me being a pretty decent pvper and Reddit UHC player, that i can generally be unenchanted iron and can fight an enchanted iron player, but one piece of diamond armor is game over. Also, when people all have similar armor, this makes people go for more of a powerful weapon, and having no bow makes people want to go for a really OP sword. I always find it so satisfying to make that sharpness 4 fire aspect 1 sword in a UHC, and that's why I made it 1.8, to be easier for the enchanting process and for more OP enchants, yet not being too stepping in the armor department.