Yet they were pretty weak and nobody wanted them earlier.
It was prot Warrior on top despite Paladin having all the interrupts.
Now they got buffed, have high survivability during cooldowns, and have very high damage and are therefore meta.
The stop changes just put stops back like they used to be, in SL, and BFA, and the entire rest is the game. Prot paldins weren’t meta back then despite all their interrupts.