Oh Boy gasnick thank you for your Post. At least we have one barb that is reading the forums and is making appropriate and well educated suggestions. As you read threw a lot of discussions i would suggest that your posts contains a lot of true statements
On the life servers barbs have done 146 non season 
Archon was 145/146 on live servers. It was nerfed. Basicly pre nerfed Archon has same power as current ww rend barb. Do barbs deserve a better threatment than wizzards ?
The table guys already did their Work, a bit reading in the forums would helped to find the “table guys” that are sitting at the table the whole day.
Thank you for aknowledgment that the strongest build, bazooka wizzard was nerfed apprently. And with it basicly every channeled build, even the weaker ones. Balance wise it is a slap in the face for every wizzard that like build diversity.
it is buged as you see in the quotes above and it is confirmed by blizzard. it is bugged by over 1000% or the factor 10x. It is way weaker than current ww rend barb so you can keep calm and cool. And the new set is bad because of its mechanic it need a rework+ a bugfix.