I started to write a long rant in response to this, but the short version is, while tinkering with sleep affects, it just made sense to do them all together.

A lot of the bitching is just that, bitching. There are still thieves with 3 (4 if counting 0-tick) blackjack effects. Blackjack still has an enormously high success rate for any skill, much less one so capable of incapacitating an enemy or turning a raid around.