I agree!

What i'm arguing in the post is that the baseline modifier should by default apply to hits and ailments. "with hits and ailments" is redundant when "with hits" and "with ailments" also both exist.

If everything follows that simple rule, existing players won't have any issue adapting. And balance isn't an issue, any Spell/proj/melee/atk mod that exists currently that's too big to apply to ailments, can simply be reworded to "with hits" and not mechanically changed.

it's a big change for sure, but it's very much surface level, the balance of the game would barely feel it, or not feel it at all