Reindexing of tiers ?????

Either this is a bug or expected behavior that GGG reindexed the tiering of items where each item now has only 9 tiers from T1-T9 and furthermore 1 represents highest with 9 lowest. Why oh why GGG...

They changed it to that in the latest patch. Tier 1 will now always represent "the best" tier for that affix. Since an individual affix can have many tiers, and different affixes can have different number of tiers, it was quite difficult to know the best tier for any given affix.

Personally I think they should have left it alone. Consistency is best, and a higher tier number should indicate a "better" version - similar with map tiers where higher tier number = better map.