its the devs sneaky way of trying to nerf the class from hitting to many targets and or allys. The dev that did this most likely knew the feedback would be negative which is why radio silence mode was activated on this. and its also the reason they over buffed the damage on the last update to distract that the duration didn't change(it also did need more dps from what it lost). There trying to force this to work!
to me they effectively destroyed the class that used to be my main with this change. there are also other players going around saying scourge is balance now which is like umm no but what ever. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯