As others have said before, the current week has hard affixes that many players will not find fun totally regardless of the new seasonal.
From what i saw today the best approach is to nuke the maides down, except for the one that reflects damage, of course. I have a strong feeling that most players will like the affix a lot less than reapin. Reaping was extremely easy (to the point where you could just ignore it completely), visually impressive and allowed everybody to generate extreme AOE DPS. Most players love big DPS, the pupose does not matter. The affix is "ok" from my POV...but imho after reapin a lot of players will be too spoiled to give it a fair chance.
Reaping was basically designed as a reward for players, not an additional difficulty.