Herc clearly needed a nerf because he is abused non-stop mainly in raging whole lineups - it's hard to deny that. But there were so many ways to go about it, such as nerfing seastorms/zeus rages for instance.
However, making WWs pay to win, through just forcing people to stack up their favor tokens through events such as battleships (which I'm sure the upcoming change of 30 inventory slots has nothing to do with) means having much higher activity and FFing is now useless - essentially just making the game a different version of domination - and locking out teams from getting 7 wonders ever again.
Revert this, or just admit you wanna put the game many of us love to bed and that you see us as cash cows to be milked until there is no more to milk and nothing else.