The changes to redirection mechanics in the 1.16 update have made quasi-connectivity harder to work with and have made certain things which used to be possible now impossible. If a redstone repeater is placed on top of a dropper, it is now impossible to power the repeater without powering the dropper too. If an unpowered piston would be placed so that an item on top would redirect powered redstone, it will pulse indefinitely. There are many situations where these were useful that are no longer possible, and situations where it isn't even feasible to do the same thing another way.
This update has resulted in less choices in how to wire redstone, which can only have a negative effect in building with redstone. Repeaters and comparators could detect when they were powered without the change to redirection mechanics, and I believe there was surely no reason the target block couldn't have been made to do the same. This would have resulted in more possibilities without affecting the usefulness of redstone as it currently is.
Reverting these changes could only be a net gain in redstone's capabilities, and making target blocks powerable without these changes would improve it even more. As it is, the increased difficulty of working with quasi connectivity is only a hindrance.
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