I posted this in your WoW thread but ill do it here too
Frankly, as someone who's entire WoW endgame revolves around twinking, I embrace the change. I will be looking forward to "old school twinking", back before BC, leg armors, naxx ectect, when it was very uncommon to see characters above 1200hp buffed.
These changes will fundamentally alter the 19 bg's forever. Is it a good change? Well that's very much a debate. It will NOT, however, make the bracket more noob friendly, and this is something I don't think blizz is considering. A true noob will get steamrolled anyway, because they have no idea how WSG works, how to work as a team, or how to play their class in a PvP environment. You cannot learn those things by killing a bunch of boars in westfall. Even though there are less skills to learn at 19, which in turn makes the basics easier to master, by the time you become competitive you will have levelled out of the bracket anyway.
These changes only really effect the twinks. People can say it was done for new players but we all know thats bull. So what was Blizzards motivation here? Kill twinking? Balance twinking? It's hard to say.
The only thing that Blizzard can do to kill twinking is to add XP to the BG's, and either 1) they don't want to do that or 2) they are working on it and have yet to implement it. Hopefully they choose the former, because if they add XP to BG's players such as myself, who's entire endgame revolves around twinking, they will lose that player base.
This leaves their desire to balance twinking. These changes ultimately fail at that task because as I stated before the noobs will just be rolled anyway by premades in all blues and hours of WSG experience under their belts. It also fails at twink versus twink balancing because some classes needed these items to be viable. +400 HP to legs does nothing to help a rogue's DPS, but it increases a priests survivability against said DPS. As it will stand with these changes rogues and hunters (high DPS classes with decent survivability) will once again be the dominant classes to beat in 19's.
So, in short, although I personally embrace the change, it fails at what it is attempting to accomplish. I understand why many in the twink community are not happy with the changes.