You can’t stay on topic, can you? How about addressing what I wrote instead.
“As it stands now, and historically - for the entire duration of Classic WoW - Frost is the PvP spec of the class.”
Wrong. Frost was " A " pvp spec, in fact it was one of a few in vanilla WoW. There was also PoM Pyro and Elementalist. There are PvP talents in every skill tree because all specs had the ability to make PvP builds. Frost got pigeonheld to being the PvP spec from TBC onwards because of how the tree scales with available itemization.
“To make it overpowered would destroy all balance in PvP at all times.”
Hyperbole much? A balance to what? Dueling?
To this point, have you been playing SoD at all? What PvP balance are you talking about?
“It’s also difficult to take serious when Fire mage is parsing the highest in the entire game across the current raid content on a consistent basis”
Such a lame excuse, would have this argument been more legitimate in phase 1 when mages were dead center of the meters? Because we were still complaining that the spec was broken then.
“Are you willing to sacrifice the overwhelming performance of the other two specialization lines for Frost to be brought up to a medium tier? Probably not.”
Yes, I am. I would most certainly give up top dps as fire, so frost could have relevancy in PvE. My guild doesn’t need me topping the charts to go 6/6 on gnomer. Nobody has to sweat that hard to beat these raids.
"Regardless of your frantic desperation to try and disassociate class to specialization - the reality is that classes exist, specializations are choices within that class. You cannot separate the two, regardless of how hard you are trying.
The sooner you come to terms with class balance being done by classes - not by specialization - the quicker you can start progressing your understanding of metagame balance as a whole."
Except class balance ISN’T being done by class AND IS being done by specialization. As evidence of melee hunters (top of the DPS meters) getting nerfed and ranged hunters being buff. That’s whole point of SoD, they want EVERYONE to viable. That’s why classes have runes relevant to EACH specialization, to enable builds for EACH specilization. The sooner you come to terms with this you’ll understand Blizzard motives for buffing frost mages.
Looks like hot streak is still better sadly.