The issue i have here is the history of the retribution paladin. Almost every other expansion they are “starting over” in one way or another. And although I see your point, they have constantly stripped of us abilities that most rather enjoyed. I miss the baseline HoW at 20% health, I miss Exorcism, I miss our freaking seals. I can’t tell you how many posts I have been on that almost every paladin from “the old days” completely misses our seals, misses the buff BoM gave us and virtually every other spell that made us special from vanilla through WOTLK.
Now what we have in general is a sorry conglomerate of spells that are ever changing. Especially for base line spells. The only 2 spells that have remained static are Judge and CS. Other than that, they keep taking things away or bringing them back (only to take them away again later).