In a way it's good they nerfed trinkets before the shock effect of them fizzled. Either too many end up in circulation or people don't care.
Let us not forget that MODIFYING BASE STATS IN WHAT YOU PURPORT TO BE A SKILL BASED GAME IS BG, arguably worse than clades cuz at least clades are per clade.
If you can get 130 dex that's $$$. Basically almost every stat that you can boost above max is massive gainz. Editing raw stats is technically invaluable and that's why trinkets are so expensive. Dog shit trinkets are dog shit due to comparison. If trinkets only gave +1 to one max stat, they would still be strong in certain instances because they would allow diff builds to hit caps. The whole game is based on break points and 'balanced' on that. It's just nutso to fuck w/ that. Like I said it's end end game throw it in there cuz people ain't got nothing else to play for stuff.