If the tank wants to use sprint he needs to have some situational awareness. That's the reason for this expansion I was forced to make a protect macro that says, "Casting Protect, Please don't sprint off yet". Tanks that properly utilize sprint while also paying attention to their other party members situation, always receives a commendation from me. (Maybe the healer has sprint off cooldown because it was used during the last boss fight.) I absolutely love it when tanks properly use sprint, and great tanks will always remember SCH's like to prebuff with Aldo and Excog before they sprint off to aggro the mobs.

So I would say it made a lot of tanks play worse, but the tanks that do use sprint well make them play MUCH better.