Some classes have always had horrible low level gameplay. And there are those of us around that remember spamming a whopping one button 90% of the time during low level dungeons while tanking.

Flash

Sure, things are truncated a bit more than they used to be at the lower levels, but in all honesty not much has changed. A lot of the things removed from the lower level gameplay weren't really a part of any rotation. Crowd Control skills, Ninja poisons, etc. And of course, the TP removal changed the need for some of what was removed, as you no longer need filler after dumping your TP gauge AoEing.