The difference between WoD Honor and conquest gear was like 10 Ilvl, which was around a 10% difference in healing/dmg output. Right now the difference between a fully honor geared player and a fully duelist geared player is 26 Ilvls; this leaves 0 wiggle room for winning the game.
In WoD if you wanted to pvp all you needed to do was hit lvl 100, spam Ashran for about a day and get full honor gear. Then just enchant your gear and boom, you’re playing a more than viable character. This system was miles more alt friendly than any of the Shadowlands, but the biggest issue with it is the gearing.
Players - “We want one honor set and one conquest set, no upgrades please.”
Blizzard - “Hmm we hear you…” Proceeds to add another 4 ranks of gear for no reason.
26 Ilvls behind a fully geared player? Seems like a Gitgud issue.