A Patch is definitely huge news especially since most people thought they were done patching the game a while ago.
Agreed.
I was one of the people saying not everything is "big news" and not everyone should be expected to think everything is big news, but I think a patch qualifies as big for a lot of the people playing the game at this point (dare I say even most?). It's most certainly significant news, and if people want to call it big news, I think that is fair.
A patch alone might still feel a little underwhelming to me personally with all the hype chatter going around, but with actual talk about there being a PC version of MKX in existence (for the first time since XL) and heavy suggestion that there could be updates there, I would also consider that big news if it goes down. That may be because I dumped 400 hours or so into that version, but I would be into it.
Honestly, most all of the theories sound pretty good to me right now. Patches, PC, characters? All of that sounds pretty good. Though patching does bring in a level of anxiety not found in some of the other goodies.