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Of the 3,000 “changes” to the BOM, I’m not familiar with all of them. Those that I am familiar with were mostly to correct punctuation, printers errors, etc. As I understand it, the translation as transcribed by Oliver Cowdery lacked punctuation. They don’t concern me.

OK, just a few examples

1 Nephi 5, p. 52 … O house of Jacob, which are called out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord …
[View the 1830 Book of Mormon text - http://www.irr.org/mit/1830bom-cs-p52.html]
1 Nephi 20:1 … O house of Jacob, which are called out of the waters of Judah, or out of the waters of baptism, which swear by the name of the Lord …

2 Nephi 12, p. 117 … and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and a delightsome people.
[View the 1830 Book of Mormon text- http://www.irr.org/mit/1830bom-cs-p117.html]
2 Nephi 30:6 (1840 edition) … and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white pure and a delightsome people.
(Later editions until 1981) … white and delightsome
(1981 to current edition) pure and delightsome

On the other hand, the passage in 1 John cited by most believers in the Nicene Creed, called the Johannine Comma, is now universally recognized as having been added hundreds of years after the fact by a monk.

Yes, the comma has been identified for a number of years. Are you aware that in Smith's inspired edition of the bible - the JST (aka the Inspired Version) - the Johannine comma is left intact? Apparently the revelation that Smith received maintained that piece of scripture unaltered.