Did they change/nerf recombinator?

ok here's my experience.

i made the same items as i did last league. (es helm/chest/gloves/boots).It felt double the difficulty than last season. Before that, i tried making some hybrid items for another project. Normal 1k weight 3 affixes. That felt like a pain, i think it took me around 40 recombs in total for each final item.

Then again i got quite lucky with a craft as it turned into a 3p+1s. I also unluckily transferred a fractured affix into the final item that was there for 15 recombs ( i was using fractured bases since they were cheap ).

i moved into some of the rarest affixes (weight 25) and recombed 4 items with one rare affix and one normal essence mod (non corrupt)/or a mediocre affix in about 16-20 total recombs (around four-five for each item).

Overall it kinda felt nerfed so far. However, i know the sample is too small. Truth is last league i only made 6 items in total, compared to this one.

The t17s are nerfed but the tree and async do provide a lot of bases.