If you believed that 1.4 gear was going to "make things harder", you clearly have no idea how much easier the game was made in 1.12 with the talent changes. I don't know why people honestly thought that the gear was the difference....the mechanics were the difference, and we don't have any of those mechanics in 1.4.
Still though, grats for the speedruns and kills in MC and Ony...once BWL is released, probably gonna be cleared within a week or two...that is if the bosses are even available and scripted when it's released (lol).