Yeah I've been feeling the same too. With his 25 bonus attack on special every time he's engaged on, 6 less attack hurts much less. Plus I run him alongside Ophelia with rally up attack so that negates the drop :'D thanks
I actually find that he depends mostly on a big special to get his damage done, which means he's more or less a OHKO creature, which means I consider spd very secondary on him. I prefer atk.