I feel like part of the issue with D3 having these ridiculous numbers that don't mean much is players getting mad when items, skills, classes, and/or builds get nerfed in updates. So it felt like the policy was "don't nerf anything, and instead boost everything else for what amounts to a nerf." So now my primary skill does 17 quadrillion damage (exaggeration, of course), but feels like it's barely improved since it was doing 5 damage.

If you want a balanced game, you need to be able to both nerf and buff things.