Yeah but what was surprising me was sort of the opposite.
Priests in general (both on the forums, and the theorycrafters, and the top level spriests), were pretty much all saying collectively that Spriest had a lot of problems, and among the most common was the complaint of button bloat. Or, at least, there were complaints about a lot of random filler procs along with buttons you just smash off CD, and the constant feeling of ‘missing’ a proc or losing potential damage because of how many there were and the inability to fit them all in.
Blizzard buffs the ABSOLUTE HELL out of Spriest, and those complaints mostly calm down.
Blizzard then starts a rework, saying they want to target button bloat and the forums immediately went into “Who even ASKED for this?!?!?!”
When the answer was basically, uh, everyone. Sure, spriest is doing great right now. But if those problems were fundamental spec issues (and some of them definitely are) then they should try to fix them. Otherwise, when Spriest is tuned back down to middle of the pack the complaints become much the same.