The problem is, Warlocks weren't really overpowered. This is a prime example of what happens when people use bad data to make decisions and as a result they make bad decisions.
Seriously, read this analogy. It will help you understand why nerfing FC was a terrible decision.
Imagine you built a space heater. Your space heater functions kind of oddly, in that it has a small silent explosion that occurs for 10 seconds that repeats once every 150 seconds. However, during those 10 seconds, the amount of heat generated is extremely impressive. In order to demonstrate the quality of your space heater, you should record how it heats over an extended period of time, say at least 600+ seconds.
However, let's say you were motivated to try to make the space heater look better than it really was. If that was your motivation, you would take a much smaller clip of time, say 90 seconds, or 60 seconds, or 30 seconds. By doing so, your sample-size selection would skew the results and cause the space heater to look like it generated way more heat than it really did.
Now, let's say that some part of the Department of Energy finds your results and determines that such heat generation capabilities need to be regulated, and force you to use a weaker combustion system in your space heater based on your skewed sample sizes.
Well now we've got a problem. Because your space heater doesn't really work as well as the lies suggested, but now they've been toned down AS IF THEY DID.
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Now substitute Warlocks, DPS, Devs, etc into the above story, and you'll see what happened here.
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