The raid has been made easier even though the damage output by the numbers has been lowered on Expose-heavy teams. JTR teams still do wonders. What you’re arguing as a “nerf” is how math works.
If, for example, you were doing 1 million total damage in 1 run, and also had 50 thousand from expose damage, you’d be doing 1,050,000 total damage.
After the health pool reduction, you’d still be doing your 1 million, just less from expose depending on the total health pool reduction. Sure, it’s less total damage output. But at the end of the day the raid is still easier and less of a chore, which means you can do more raids and get more rewards.
Before this change to the raid, my JTR squad was lucky to put out 2 million on an average run because of the nightmare of Annihilate’s unpredictable cool downs. Now I average about 4 million. This is on Tier 6. So my damage actually doubled despite this “mathematical nerf.”
So yeah, I guess I just don’t, and probably never will, understand your complaint.