“Some people like the new one”, he says. I mean, people are still playing it, it must be just as good...

Never mind that there are 4.6 times as many WHM parses as AST parses on fflogs, which is our only real metric I can find on how much classes are getting played at cap, since the census just counts how many people have reached level 80.

I’d say that, while there are people who like the new AST, there are significantly more people who like the old (at least among AST mains. I think there are a lot of dps mains who like their balance bots). SE should learn what they can from what people like about the new system, improve the old one, and give us that.