Turns out, no. But not by much.
I’m about to post over in the General Discussion section but throwing one here first because it’s relevant. Got bored today so downloaded all the Development-period Blue Post (no live hotfixes) class changes from the beginning of Dragonflight (pre-patch when Evokers became a thing) to present 11.2 Ghosts of Karesh. Working on looking at a variety of measurements and things like word-count of changes, frequency of dates between changes, etc.
On number of development mentions alone, Demon Hunters come last at 41 (but they only have two specialisations) Rogues clock in next at 45, then Warlocks next at 47.
Specialisation-wise, Affliction and Demonology are both fighting it out with Assassination, Subtlety, Vengeance, and Augmentation (not counting this though as it’s been in the game less time) for the lowest attention. The only difference is after a quick word-count for each mention, any changes for Demonology, Assassination, Vengeance, and Augmentation are quite literally in the hundreds, whereas Affliction and Subtlety, and barely crack triple-digits.
So hey, we’re not the the least attended to class. But Warlock is certainly lower than the majority statistically.
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We may be attended to, but some of the changes they end up making are either pretty subpar, or downright awful. I wish we had an actual dev that would communicate with us about or class and listen to suggestions because as of now it feels like no one gives a crap and we’re ignored.
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And when every they manage to give us something good, like the new demon customization, it’s usually short lived and they go back to ignoring us.
Well, compared to Frost Mages, probably not. Still, it does seem to take Blizzard longer to address problems Warlocks are having.
By the way, how many of those ‘mentions’ were about set bonus’s, as opposed to Spec/Class talents?
Did more work on it today. Mages have 64 total mentions, and Frost 38. Admittedly they are the lowest of the Mage specs, with Arcane getting 46 and Fire getting 44.
Numbers wise Warlocks come in at Affliction 21, Demonology 18, and Destruction 30.
Regarding class set tuning/adjustments this is minimal. I took a look at live hotfix notes and the majority of class set stuff seemingly happens throughout the season. Minimal changes seemingly happen on the PTR and it seems maybe only 1 or two mentions a season actually occur.
I’m working on word count totals now but totalled the entire word count for the document is 260,000. Each change likely represents much background research and development time which I can appreciate too. But it just sucks to see such a clear disparity.
EDIT:
Full list is up and available over at the 11.2 Development Notes forum: Just who is the least 'developed' in WoW?
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Doesnt the head mage dev handle warlock too? Or am I being misinformed?
So, Demo is second to bottom, sandwiched between Aug Evoker/Vengeance DH and the poor Assassination Rogue (who is my main Alt!).