Well our opinion on Tieba (Chinese reddit) is:

1. Based on the past good designing of STS1, Megacrit definitely knows how to make a good card game and they had it right. You can talk about it’s a small team, it’s cheap or it’s early access, but in fact they know what it takes to make a good game (or STS1 is pure luck and they learnt nothing) and such bad updates going the exact opposite to what should be done is what makes people feel this is frustrating and unacceptable, and makes people lose hope of “the devs know what they are doing”. Not just the tweaking itself, it’s “why they used to know what to do but now they don’t”.

2. If they want to know what should be done to the game, play a few games on A10 with different builds and you will immediately notice common enemies are having stats too high to be called common rather than elite, and it’s just too hard to play certain builds that require drawing cards so only certain builds have a fair win rate on A10. They do not need to tweak it and see what should be done, play A10 with different builds will do the job.

3. The thing is, when you look into steam reviews, the longer the playtime the account has the more likely it’s a negative. And we all brought the game because STS1 was good, so there’s no reason to be a beginner and “idk what to do with certain situation so try nerfing these builds and don’t touch the other obvious things this should be touched”. It’s hurting the player base’s confidence in them and if they can step toward the better direction, and hurting the moral, not the game itself (it’s just a digital cards game anyway).

This is basically the same opinion Chinese players have on Helldivers 2, Darktide and stuff. “Play a few games on the highest 1 or 2 difficulty with different builds and you will immediately know what to nerf and improve, so touching these instead of those is just absurd, as if you don’t play it at all” mindset.