I feel like casters have been paying back for nearly 11 years the benefits they had in 2.0 in the first raid tier. There were plenty of "near-boss" mechanics that had to be handled by melee, but not by casters. And nearly all mechanics that required casters to move also required melee to move. So, melee pretty much were shafted the entire first raid tier, if not the second one as well.

Melee were very unpopular to play at that point. SE made adjustments later in ARR. And in this player's opinion, it swung the other way against casters ever since.