I hated the Patch, but after a week...

I was excited to try the patch, and as a Zerg, I felt like the changes were positive. I was not a fan of how the worker count made my builds feel clunky and I noticed a significant drop in my APM for the first few days. Also, I lost about 90% of he matches I played so that was no fun.

For context I'm been hovering around 2700-2900 on the main ladder for about a month after coming back to the game earlier this year. I'm solid against most players at or below my MRR, but almost never win a match with someone over 3000.

That being said, I feel like the patch highlighted my weaknesses by forcing me to think again.

I realized that my unit management is by far my biggest liability and that any success I've had was 100% due to my consistent early game and strong macro style. My APM on the ladder had been averaging around 120.

I'm not sure exactly what changed, but after a week on the patch, and focusing on improving the areas I felt exposed with, I was hitting between 150-190 APM every game. For fun I decided to see how this translated in the main ladder play.

I won the first two matches relatively easily even though they had slightly higher MRRs.

Has anyone else experience something similar after playing the patch for a while?

Some other notes regarding specific matchups on the patch:

I find ZvT matches the most difficult still, and have noticed a bunch of early ghost play. I dont see many ghosts in the level I play at normally so I'm not sure if this is just my inexperience with dealing with the unit, or if something is making that style more effective or prominent.

I understand that the general consensus is that Protoss got dealt the weak hand with the changes, but I think I've only won a couple of matches.

ZvZ matches havent been as easy, but this is most likely due to figuring out timings and cleaning up my early game with the new economy.