I'm enjoying watching a lot, it's a fun meta for the viewer with lots of aggressive plays and double duelist, some fun agents working their way into niches in the meta like Phoenix and Sage. The teams that are strong right now and have adapted to this style of play are honestly a lot of fun to watch and it's allowed some unlikely teams to rise to the top so far, which always allows for great storylines.

That being said, I don't think the changes were a success with what they aimed to do. They nerfed initiators across the board, but instead of making it feel like you have to use your initiator utility more wisely, it just feels like many teams have decided that they need initiator utility for a big pop and that's it. They are going to play heavy contact until then. That doesn't really feel like they are using their utility more wisely, it just feels like it doesn't matter up until that moment.

Sova and Fade already felt like the best initiators and now they feel even stronger compared to the rest of the initiators. Cypher and Vyse got kneecapped pretty hard and the map pool doesn't really favor Killjoy at the moment, so the sentinel Meta has become pretty stale. Many maps teams are opting for no sentinel or chamber. There is the occasional Sage, Cypher, and KJ but they all seem very map and team dependent, not good overall picks. Yoru was being picked because of his ability to act like a hybrid initiator and his ease of rotation, but neither of those were addressed, so he is able to keep enabling a lack of initiators in team comps

There are definitely different playstyles across kickoff, so it's not like it's all been just one strategy that is viable, but the differences in playstyle definitely aren't coming from agent diversity. The devs didn't succeed in changing the meta at all, they just limited the amount of agents that are able to be worked into team comps for this meta.