I would also just say.... We tend to remember Vanilla harder than it was....
Who remembers the solo 60 prot warrior soloing ubrs?
watch?v=5oU9gQOiwlI

That's not the exact video I'm thinking of, but there was a lot of calls for prot warriors to be buffed because they were "hard to level", and a prot warrior posted a video similar to that, at the time....