I laughed, but only because of how depressingly true it is.
But surprisingly, I'm ok with that list: Hazama, Litchi, and Valkenhayn are pretty much guaranteed to be top-high at this point, they're the best characters that control space and have decent-high damage with more resources; they're just really well designed characters in general.
Bang kind of surprised me, I haven't really kept an eye on his changes aside from the sample video with that crossup nail, but I'm sure there's more. If someone could explain, I'd like that.
I'd imagine Nu would be better once they got rid of her stance change and just kept her committed to one style, in this case her zoning which means she can play keep away some more :D
If Carl's that high, that means Nirvana still doesn't die as fast as she used to. so yea.
Ragna being there was already explained by Titanium, but yea, dat damage son plus the fact that he's already pretty solid.
Everyone else are either mostly unchanged, or got massive nerfs to boot them down there(RIP Azrael and Kokonoe) or they're still undiscovered as of now. Izayoi going up makes sense and she really fucking needed it.
Kind of sad to see the likes of Kagura, Amane, and Terumi still so low tho.