You used a lot of Ifs there.
You are compartmentalizing all the changes into seperate categories, if you only looked at one change by itself it may be a poor update.
You cant do that though all of the changes work together to make the whole set superb and even surpassing pre nerf EM. And again even if you took focus out, it would still surpass pre nerf EM.
No its not the same, statistically its better, and IMO stylistically and strategically its far better.