Reformat the \citet command

Question

I am currently writing my thesis and wanted to change a bit the citation style so that it looked and read better. I am using the famous classicthesis and added the following to the config:

\usepackage[maxcitenames=2,citestyle=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}

So that I could use \citet and \citep in my .tex files.

This is what I get with \citet

Bowman, (2005)

This is what I get with \citep

(Bowman, 2005)

However I would very much like to get read of the additional coma in the \citet in order to only get

Bowman (2005)

To do that I tried to define a command on my own

\newcommand{\citetL}[1]{\citeauthor{#1}~(\citeyear{#1})}

which gives me the desired output except for the fact that the hyperlink that would usually get me to the reference (when I click on the year) is now gone.

Do you have a better solution or at least a way to add the hyperlink to get to the reference when I click on the year?

Related (somehow) to that issue is the fact that my final list of references is still numerical

[1] Bowman.... 2005

[2] Bowman.... 2006

Instead of

Bowman 2005:

Bowman 2006:

Would you know where this may come from?

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After replacing my old version of TexLive with the 2017 version I get the following error:

Package etoolbox Error: Toggle 'blx@bibtex8' already defined.

A MWE can be found below:

\RequirePackage{fix-cm} % fix some latex issues see: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/fixltx2e.pdf
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{import}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage{subfig} %For subfigure
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{gensymb}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{eurosym}  
\usepackage{tabu}
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{pifont}
\usepackage{soul}



%********************************************************************
% Note: Make all your adjustments in here
%*******************************************************
%\input{classicthesis-config}

\usepackage{csquotes}
\PassOptionsToPackage{%
    %backend=biber, %instead of bibtex
    backend=bibtex8,bibencoding=ascii,%
    language=auto,%
    style=numeric-comp,%
    %style=authoryear-comp, % Author 1999, 2010
    %bibstyle=authoryear,dashed=false, % dashed: substitute rep. author with ---
    sorting=nyt, % name, year, title
    maxbibnames=10, % default: 3, et al.
    %backref=true,%
    natbib=true % natbib compatibility mode (\citep and \citet still work)
}{biblatex}
    \usepackage[maxcitenames=2,citestyle=authoryear,natbib=true,backend=bibtex]{biblatex}


%********************************************************************
% Bibliographies
%*******************************************************
\addbibresource{Bibliography.bib}
Text \cite{Besancon:2016:UCMTT}

%********************************************************************
% Other Stuff in the Back
%*******************************************************

\printbibliography


% ********************************************************************
% Game Over: Restore, Restart, or Quit?
%*******************************************************
\end{document}
% ********************************************************************

Bibliography file:

@inproceedings{Besancon:2016:UCMTT,
    Address = {Denver, United States},
    Author = {Besan{\c c}on, Lonni and Issartel, Paul and Ammi, Mehdi and Isenberg, Tobias},
    Booktitle = {{Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)}},
    Date-Added = {2017-09-12 07:38:33 +0000},
    Date-Modified = {2017-09-12 07:38:33 +0000},
    Doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025863},
    Hal_Id = {hal-01436206},
    Hal_Version = {v1},
    Keywords = {usability study ; TUI ; tangible interaction ; ACM Classification Keywords H52 User Interfaces: Input devices and strategies Author Keywords 3D interaction ; mouse ; tactile interaction},
    Month = May,
    Pages = {4727--4740},
    Pdf = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01436206/file/chi2017.pdf},
    Title = {{Mouse, Tactile, and Tangible Input for 3D Manipulation}},
    Url = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01436206},
    Year = {2017},
    Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01436206},
    Bdsk-Url-2 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025863}}