Icefrog has totally lost it now, the whole 6.82 has been debacle. Its like he's balancing the game off whatever gets more upvotes at reddit.
Well, if that were true, void would get removed and Death Prophet would have a 600 sec CD on her Ulti.
I agree with a lot of these changes.
If you look at the top picks of 6.81 , it's heroes like Brew, DP, Void, Tinker, SKywrath and some others
Top picks of 6.82? Mostly brew, DP, Void, SKywrath, Spectre, ANti Mage and some others.
Even with the decrease in the tower gold advantage and making comebacks easier, these heroes were still dominating pro games as well as pubs, implying there's something that needs to be done about the hero rather than reworking the game mechanics to not suit the hero as much.