No, to the contrary, not everyone was saying what you state, and in fact, Ion himself said that whatever you could solo at 120 should remain, which isn’t holding up at all.
Or they say “it’s pre-patch, deal with it”, and so on.
Yeah, putting out a patch that is very bug-ridden onto live paid-subscription servers is inexcusable. It’s one thing if the bugs were related to new features, but it’s another when previously working legacy content has been trashed, and not just raids or dungeons…actual zones have been screwed up and are largely unplayable (e.g. Shatt in Draenor).
Everyone with half a clue was (because we tested on PTR and Beta).
“We do understand that removing corruptions will have an effect”. Basically, gotta read the fine print : “whatever you could solo at 120 without any corruption, you will be able to still, we can’t really garantee stuff your Twilight Dev is killing is going to still be killable”.
How about instead of inserting your own words, you use his own words directly at face value?
“That work is still ongoing. When it’s done, you’ll likely feel a bit weaker due to Corruption’s removal (8.3 content tuned around Corruption will be rebalanced, but the rest of the game wasn’t built with that in mind) but otherwise you should be able to solo what you could at 120”
In any event, I see we’re back to the whole “corruptions made all the difference!” while a) ignoring the fact that it takes time for corruptions to proc and if bosses were getting melted quickly before, there wasn’t a whole lot in the way of corruptions happening, and b) numerous people without cloaks and corruptions who could previously solo legion content are unable to do so now.
But let’s cherrypick our words for whiteknighting purposes.