I know what they did is a bug fix, but Club has the tendency to balance classes, right now the dagger is too good.
And in relation to they die fast, maybe unequipped daggers, but any dagger with good equips don't die too fast imo.
As I said, if they decided to keep like this we need to learn how to playing against again, but I'm known for sure that a lot of new daggers will appear, the same thing happened with other servers when the poneys got extremely OP.