[Autumn]

"free" as in spending skill points to get them mostly, I don't think they require nerfs, otherwise it's just not worth it to pick those up either, as someone who uses crit in a majority of my builds, crit is not for damage, actually, the damage is only a plus side of the massive utility that critical hits provide, What I am saying is, critical hits are utility, not damage, it doesn't matter whether I deal 1.0 critical damage or 2x critical damage, as long as I get these benfits, justifying it with stuff like that is just..I dunno, I don't feel like it's right, as someone who has played crit focused builds for a while now.

Utility includes stuff like:
Amplified skill effects (example: Geldoren, Cutthroat and breakdown for knockdown)
Amplified weapon effects (Ryeser, Graailty, Skullcaver,Shotguns with one punch KO, etc.)

And the best part, momentum, whether its through Fleur or through critting with 2 weapons, staying an action above your opponent assures they can almost never punish you for overstepping boundaries, or you can burst them down with other abilities that follow crits.(Like lowering your opponent's DEF with Geldoren and then Ether invitation them, or move/haunting away)

Crits, are not for damage despite everything you did to nerf their damage.

this is why black knights cannot be crit 100% of the time by people who barely build crit in their skill builds, you get kited into eternity.
(this is why boneheart enchant exists for them, so even the strongest of crit builds have trouble getting past, usually achieving only 20-30%, which is completely fair)

It is also why critical hits dominate over mages, they do not benefit from critical hits usually and don't have essentially 9 momentum like duelists or anyone dual wielding. (When I say essentially, its basically just that, with everyone achieving 110-150% critical hit chances)