It’s not accurate to say the baseline concept hasn’t changed when the percentage of the end game population affected by Aug has gone from like 85+% in s2 of DF to legitimately ~1% or so now.
Then this isn’t a spec issue, it’s a community perception issue.
I have been asked to change to a meta spec infinitely more on my warrior and rogue than my evoker.
Augmentation didn’t invent the meta, it just made it more divisive.
Honestly aug is the one dps spec that can’t carry a bad pug group, more damage is always good.
I love the trinity. I just don’t like this religion.
Remove DPS role
Give everybody damage
Tanks control space and threat
Supports undo damage taken and mitigate incoming
Tyrants apply buffs and debuffs and provide damage windows for the team
Down with the old gods, hail the new gods
I would say just make groups BIGGER!
8 men groups: 2 tanks, 2 healers, 1 support and 3 dps 
Less stress for healers, less stress for tanks
Ummm no. This would be awful.
Same amount of DPS (already the most populous role) double the healers and tanks for no reason (least populous role by FAR) and forcing groups to have a support role (that doesn’t even really exist currently).
Gee, what could go wrong?
Aug was literally and is literally marketed as a support spec. It has been since day 1. We aren’t a DPS we are support. Blizzard has said so since they were announced.
Fixed that one for you. It’s not a new actual role, nor was it positioned as such.
We are, quite literally, a DPS.
No, they have called it a support DPS since they were announced.
They didn’t make a new “support” role in the game, and we queue, appear, and report as a DPS because that’s what we are.
Wrong again. From the blizzard announcement post (aka "day 1’):
Augmentation is a new Damage Dealer role with a twist: they use the essence of the Black and Bronze dragonflights to amplify the abilities of nearby allies.