what're your thoughts on the damage changes the devs made at one point (i think when the dlc dropped maybe)

i was going through old screenshots in the smartframes thing and found both a screenshot of the caretakers spade and hyper critical and the damage is so massively different (nerfed) for example caretakers spade did 925 damage per hit originally bht now only does 190 at the same tier same with hyper critical it used to do almost a thousand damage per shot now it does like 1/3