Gutted is not the proper term to use here, we have never touched these things and these nerfs are most likely 100% deserved to bring everything to generally equal level.
This is cool. Grabs sorta seemed like they could fairly drastically slow the flow of combat given how long you could make them last.
We obv can’t know for sure but given word from testers this was like 99% a good choice for the health of the game and meta