that at some time in the future there will likely be some sort of balancing patch that will make armor relevant again, wether it\'s a change to weapons, a buff to armor or both doesn\'t really matter. Like you said, armor is useless now so its likely to get some sort of balancing later.
Balancing isn\'t high on priority now, but now is the time to introduce all the blocks that need balancing later. That said, steps should be taken to balancing things all the time, to avoid having to make massive changes later with little time to test stuff. At this point it would be good to balance by introducing new features and blocks, rather than drastically changing existing stuff.