You make me feel old. You say it's been a long time since you logged in, and yet your account was created after the release of the Warcraft III: Reforged game. Seems to me like Reforged released only yesterday.
Here at Hive Workshop, from my understanding, money is hard to come by so everything that people do lives on motivation rather than funding. As a result, I think that very little has changed as far as Warcraft III intellectual property. I am less familiar with melee balance than you are, I gather, but I am doubtful that the melee balance changed substantially since the time when your Hive account was created (Apr 21, 2020). However, we do have technology to create mods that would use a different melee balance for melee style maps. Have you used the War3Champions or Quenching mods for the 1.32 client, assuming that the latest and/or melee version is what you're most interested in? I have not personally tried them, but I hear about them all the time. It sounds like a lot of people have worked very hard on them and trying to continue iterating on Warcraft III in the absence of any greatly substantial "official" update.