In defense of the Occultist; Her CURSE nodes need a BUFF NOT A NERF

Is it fair to define ascendancies as: "Providing a choice between a handful of semi-permanent sets of tools to approach the game differently depending on your choice"?. If so, store that...

While technically the "Occultist got stronger", that is only true because every class and ascendency got objectively stronger with the curse buff. The question is, did the Occultist get COMPARITAVELY stronger, and that it warrants a nerf? Not only do I think that answer is NO, but I think the Occultist got COMPARITAVELY (to every other class) weaker, and needs some love to bring her back to her RELATIVE power level before the changes.

If
1) "[Part of] Malediction has been moved to the passive skill tree, where it's available for everyone."
2) "it's not mandatory to play [Occultist] for someone who merely wants to apply really strong hexes"
3) "We have added penalties to both Blasphemy and Hextouch Supports"
4) "put this on to apply 3 curses!"
5) "We've buffed a bunch of Hex-related unique items"

Why were all of these things overlooked when considering Occultist power level?
This is a classic case of "Why buy the cow when milk is so cheap?"
Yes, the curse changes buff her, but they buff everyone else too!

But now, more of her "kit" is available without actually having to be her, what's the point of having her an an ascendency? It kind of defeats the purpose and definition I laid out earlier, no? As far as curses go, she doesn't do anything special that you can't get anywhere else, and saying "I play Occultist for Hexproof counter", doesn't cut it. Oh, you saved 100 alchs/scours/chaos/maps over the course of the league. Everyone would trade 100x that currency to have 2 additional ascendency points, so I'm not buying that argument.

The justification as far as I can tell is QUOTE "the effects of this notable [+1 curses, apply to hexproof] are still very strong"
Is that REALLY true? True enough to warrant a nerf?
You just made it much easier to get additional curses, so that stat is significantly less valuable
Hexproof is laughed at by half the curse builds, or *ALWAYS* dealt with by having alchs/scours/chaos/vaals/more maps
I'd say that ascendency point, compared to others, is on the VERY low end of value
So your justification for her nerfs being: "its okay cuz this node is still strong" is off the mark
In reality, she either doesn't need a change AT ALL, or even needs some new specific mechanic to give her *curse* nodes PURPOSE after the 5 things I listed above happen

Just look at other ascendency classes, or hell even her own other nodes, and ask yourself. Do they compare in strength?
I don't think any honest person would say "Yes".

1) A list of modifiers which you can use for the Occultist's ascendency
Combine just about any two honestly, and you've got yourself a balanced node


2) Remove all other sources of +1 curses, except the legendary someone just paid to have made I guess. It does seem like a STEEP price to pay for extra curses, a ring slot is a pretty big deal (though it does have other good stats). If the Occultist node is the alternative to one VERY RARE chase item, that turns it into one of the best ascendency nodes!