No, there are still gold stats on gold tools. Rather rare but they exist.

It's true they are shist thou. The highest + attack, for example, that I've seen since the "bug fix" is +41 on a red gourd, whereas from before that, I've had +81. Both of those are rare thou, I only have one of each. The common high "before" value is in the high 50s whereas the common high "after" value are in the mid to high 30s.