If players still started with 1200HP I would've killed him without taking a single point of damage. But since this patch is 1600HP, I get punished and die for getting low tier weapons in my first chest. Everyone being an early game tank exacerbates the weapon balance issues and leads to more encounters being decided by RNG before the fight even began.

So in a 1200 HP game, I outplay and kill my opponent with low tier weapons and don't even take damage. In the 1600HP game, I die because I was "stupid" enough to try and fight with the only weapons available to me which happen to be "Low-tier".

I think it's quite obvious which version of the game is more skillful and fun.