Do CA need a buff because of the fixed pathing?

First of all, there was a lot of complaints about CA efficiency in DE before the patch. Most importantly, they were not just from noob-ish players like me, but from the very top players. I remember hearing them from TheViper and slam at least. But I think that the recent patch make the ca problem even more valuable.

I just had a game, where I was playing cumans against huns.

I played up to imp pretty bad with a lot of misclicks, and probably not the best strategy (I played cumans first time on arabia, I guess, and they are a tricky civ). At some point in imp I was forced to take a fight, where I had almost twice less units than the enemy, all my units are fu cavalier, all his units are fu hca. So my plan was basically to take the fight, say gg, and resign. However, I won this fight, and then won the game. CA were extremely underwhelming.

With new pathing I feel that the only way to play ca is "hit and run" style, which is extremely microintensive. Of course, balance should be corrected for professional players first of all, but say at my level (1300 elo) there is no chance that a player would micro them perfectly AND control situation in the other point of a map. And at this level people understand that and will raid/side attack. Finally, just compare microing ca and microing kipchaks. The first is really no fun.

So I just don't see why would I use ca at all (apart from very specific situation like in response to enemy mangudais).

I would love to hear your thoughts about ca, especially people that are better than me.