Desync and why it's fixable

But, for what it's worth, the 1.02 DoT change was clearly a nerf, because DoT users were getting more use out of immunity to reduced damage (Multistrike, LMP, GMP, etc.) than they could hope to get out of the ability to take increased damage. I think it was a change that needed to be made eventually, but should have been accompanied with more opportunities to increase DoT damage, especially in the case of Viper Strike. The decision to nerf base skill DoT numbers was not well thought-out, essentially ignoring the multitude of cases where reduced-damage immunity proved beneficial to such builds.

Cleave was downright OP in racing, where the earliest levels are the most important. I'm not sure it needed a nerf that drastic, however; the main problem was that elemental damage was not reduced at all in Beta, making Cleave + Anger and Cleave + Wrath very strong in Beta races, and available as early as defeating Brutus in Normal. I probably would have stuck with the old 40% reduced (not less), but included elemental damage as well. Physical Cleave wasn't OP and didn't need a nerf, just the elemental part (and it got nerfed pretty hard anyway, with the aura change); that's why going from "reduced" to "less" really bothers me. Maybe 30% less instead of 40%, if we have to go down the "less" route?

I don't have a sporker, and I didn't really notice what changes were made to them.

Don't understand exactly what your issue with two-handers is. They were buffed.

The WED change is actually something I have absolutely zero problem with; it's the type of change I would have made. It was very OP considering the amount of damage it could provide with no drawback other than a high multiplier. It was like 1.5 support gems that only took up 1.0 slots. Change reduced both the damage increase and the cost multiplier; exactly what it needed.

RF nerf was... well, I don't know if I approve of anything GGG has done with that skill. Ever. I guess it's a little better off being nearly unusable as opposed to hideously OP, but I feel we can aim higher than that. It's hard to make suggestions for a skill which was never in a good place, ever, but I would have tried basing it entirely off of ES: 100% ES as burning damage to self per second, turns off when you hit 0 ES. At least that way it could be used for a brief increase in spell damage that didn't utterly kill the user, and you could even sustain it with 25 ES, Zealot's Oath, and a little flat regen from gear, so long as you didn't get hit. But I can sympathize with GGG a little bit in that they promised no more wipes, so they can't just remove RF, and the whole thing is a debacle and very hard to untangle. RF should have never existed, but it's too late for that now, and getting it to fit in properly will be highly experimental and likely to create versions of the gem which either suck or break the game in half.

I actually really like the aura changes. Sorry, but it's true that auras were too generalized, and you should have to specialize in them to use them properly. I have an aura-stacking character who does fine, and I have had a few characters who barely used auras at all; that's a lot better than it used to be.