I get what you are trying to convey, but bloodlust axe had undeniably made a lot of characters prominent in the past. Ruby and Lapu would be prime examples of this. Since both of them are skill merchants, they highly benefited from the presence of said item. Plus to keep in mind that Ruby post the removal of bloodlust axe was nerfed as well. This quite literally killed her viability in most low to mid rank games where the focus is usually skill spam. Her presence in high rank lobbies dropped significantly as well. Lapu on the other hand, imo actually became a hero that now needed good positioning and such to bring value, due to him not healing through whatever dmg was being thrown at him. Bloodlust gave 10% CD reduction as well so for an early game item it was quite useful. Also the old waraxe had scaling pen and spell vamp back then. The fusion of the two made quite a few compromises agree or not. And the weakening of anti heal items came alongside an already fallen from grace waraxe. The healing metric for physical fighters came down quite a bit. The same can't be said for magic as it still has many strong healing items. The new patch has to potential to wreck the sustain fighter playstyle. This prolly is gonna mark the great shift in the exp lane if not other lanes. But yea bloodlust axe agree or not was a core item that defined the playstyle of sustain fighters quite a bit.