I was expecting them, but I expected them by 7.0. When I saw that they kept the timer despite all the other changes, and still kept it in 7.1, it gave me hope that they valued this part of it.

But I could also see how Pictomancer had basically destroyed its competition and that Black Mage was in a position of being like a handicapped Pictomancer.

I think you can still be sad about something despite expecting it, and I think that's how most people are who played the job properly at any point.