SOD is very mid.
The issue is in vanilla, some classes were complete and didn’t need additional abilities/buffs (rogues, warriors, mages etc)… While others were lacking (ret/prot paladins, boomkins etc.)
What they should have done is slightly tweak certain abilities and talents for some classes while leaving others alone. And focus the rest of the dev time on content, new quests, new dungeons, new raids… while still keeping the classic feeling and not turning it into Retail-Lite crammed into a Vanilla framework.
As someone who mained ret all of vanilla, I can say that we didn’t need divine storm or seal of martyrdom or exorcism or anything like that.
All vanilla rets needed was crusader strike and an increase on seal of command proc rate and THATS IT. Those 2 changes would’ve made ret perfectly viable DPS in vanilla instead of the bottom of the meter meme spec.