My problems with AST buffs.

[winsock]

See, you can throw definition as much as you want.
The fact is [I use] words are getting used differently then their definition.

^ fixed that for you.

Saying "In 3.05, it was viable to use AST in Alexander Savage" is accurate. You not understanding the definition of the word doesn't make it any more or less true.

Back to my original point/post:
The increased difficulty on the healing end was not a problem in and of itself. The problem was there was very little, if any, tradeoff for the increased healing difficulty. It was an inferior option and there was little reason to take it.

As the potency gap becomes narrower, AST is borderline becoming a WHM + cards + disable + better instaheals + CU mitigation. It's still early, but there is legitimate concern in WHM becoming the inferior option, in favor of AST a.k.a. WHM rev2.