I am a hero imm. I have no power or decision making in anything. At all. Honestly, it would be best if you treat my entire response as player opinion because that is much closer to what it is.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, though I am likely coming off as one. I just don't view your "fix" as anything but moving in the opposite direction. Causing items to be gone after two or three breaks really makes all of the repair changes kind of pointless to me because it would just break too fast in my mind.

Beyond this, there were skills like dent that I would never use before the changes and I wouldn't use after your changes. It just is pushing things backwards, which you view as good and I don't. I don't believe these repair changes had much of an impact on gear circulation in the first place (my opinion), so I don't really see any changes as necessary here.