It's true, I remember the complaints about WHM being overpowered during early ShB because it actually had decent dps. They never nerfed it and obviously once raid buffs started scaling and optimization happened WHM fell behind. So if they nerfed it, it would be a disaster. The one that got me most was the gloating over SCH being bad and how it "deserved" it because it was really strong in the past. Sometimes we have a really bad habit of turning amongst ourselves, and demanding our class gets buffed and the others don't, which is very counterproductive for improving the role as a whole.

In the end though, it was just random forum complaints and not a general consensus. We have plenty of those today too. Best to not take too much notice.