Have we moved to an age where taking hate as a dps = bad dps instead of bad tank?

[Dzian]

The point is valid if you could have used quelling strikes /shade walker to reduce your hate and for some reason didn't.

Which is something I know a lot of dps don't do. Because there seems to be a common belief that if they use quelling strikes /shade walker and end up 5th in the enmity list then people assume there dps is terrible and thus seems a lot of players never use them because being number 2 apparantly means "best dps".

The issue really is the game is also so heavily focused on dps that nothing else matters.
As a result If the tank has to go into tank stance because you wont use quelling / shade. "OMG dps loss...." this party is terrible.
If a ninja can just shadewalker the tank instead. or the blm uses quelling strikes then the tank can stay in dps and Woot! No DPS loss and everyone's happy