The killing pure tanks is the point. That's why it was adjusted, that way if the enemy team is running all combat rifles on armor suits you can swap to a shield suit and use an armor cracking weapon to farm them while they cry. When they swap to scrams you swap to armor and continue driving them insane.

Further, dual tanking is a lazy method that really only works on sentinels (and badly even there). Three damage mods in the highs will always serve an amarr assault better than three extenders. A regulator or two and/or rep will serve a calassault better than a plate ever will. If you get close enough that you need the plate you're in a brawl and you have screwed up.

I figured that which I believe that pure tanking does deserve a slight buff. Now I am aware that using a regulator is more beneficial than a plate but that only applies for maybe the first two due to the stacking penalty and the nature of what they are reducing.

Equally a damage modifier is only equal in effectiveness to a shield extender for the first one stacked, the second one is trivial and a third one is useless, and that is only if you have a high amount of armor to back it up the damage modifiers.