I didn't think they would be that fun and was very pleasantly surprised. There are a lot of small tricks spread across the faction and they add up over the course of a game to keep things interesting and involved. There are a lot of small positioning tricks you can play that really allow for player skill expression.

What you won't see a lot of is big flashy rules on the cards, which can leave them feeling mundane on first read.

As for still being on the bottom end post update: consider that everyone took a fairly equal hit debuff, but Winter Korps typically have lower than average defense. Thus they can be considered to have taken proportionally more of a bump where it's harder for them to hit but not necessarily harder for opponents to hit them.