They actually both buffed and nerfed rockets, technically. They buffed the impact, but nerfed clusters. So technically the buff is a bit less than you make it out to be for the most part. There is also the fact that they could have instead just concentrated on buffing the stuff behind by a fair amount, rather than rerfing a bunch of stuff at the same time. The community made it pretty clear that this was how they prefered things be done, and bungie agreed, and basically said that, that was how they would do things from then on. Needless to say, people also do not like the idea of Bungie potentially repping backwards, towards the way they used to do things, towards the way that gave us destiny 2 in the beginning.