Gods have extended timers.
Timer= God’s HP.
Toe popper or anything else doesn’t work as affect as before simply because you need much more to lower God’s HP.
Because not everyone uses the god bubble in all playstyles and gods are likely getting reworked at some point because the religion system in general is thin. The gods are also part of REH’s world, so leaving them out at any level would be inappropriate.
We have no definitive explanation for why bubbles were removed.
But 2 things I’ve considered:
As @darthphysicist has mentioned, more than likely there is a religion rework in place.
There are exploitative unraidable bases that use a bubble as the catalyst and Funcom cannot reconcile how to correct this issue.
Since the update I have not used gods so I don’t know the full effects of the change. But I know that they were changed to do less damage and as @Solome pointed out, have extended timers; 10 minutes I believe. And I agree with Solome, it won’t really matter how high you place the bombs, only that their explosion should connect with the god… so yes you would need much more firepower for it to be a toepopper.
Blame the clans on official PvP servers that created unraidable bases in the keyhole and the gutter. It literally chokes out servers until it’s down to just them.