The real reason DRK players are upset

[Pibz]

It's not necessarily a bad thing that DRK has changed, it did have some unhealthy aspects to its gameplay that needed changing

I disagree on this. It wouldn't have been bad if the changes themselves weren't bad. I'm not opposed to change, i'm opposed to how they made the class more generic and took away the interesting mechanics. I wouldn't have minded if they reduced the amount of punishment you got for not performing absolutely optimally if they had just not gutted the core class design (ie kept it a mana tank with its own identity, instead of being just another power stack builder and spender)

Still no excuse for how braindead the offensive tools are though

I'm glad the community seems to agree on this. Despite what i wrote i have essentially zero illusions about them reverting the class back to HW.
It'd be great if the devs listened, though i'm not keeping my hopes up.