See that’s the bit that boggles me. It’s actually more work to change combat like this than it would be to just leave it be. The purge changes would work just fine under the Age of Sorcery meta.
@DeaconElie wrote a great response to the developer letter to the community. The fact is that no one asked for or wanted these changes, but you had two devs that are so bad at playing their own game that they began to shotgun poorly thought-out updates until they arrived at a point where the skill ceiling for the game was touching the floor.