Except you would be wrong that WFB got that way by sheer POPULAR DEMAND, particularly at the grassroots. Specifically, people who don’t come to the forums/Discord. Back in SL, nobody gave a flipping poo about Mongoose Bite or Flanking Strike, and I won’t be sassed back otherwise. It got changed AGAINST its popularity.
What that ultimately caused is SV being crap all over again, and rightly so, because a small certain oligarchy would rather have a spec be bad than its fun to be shared by all.
WFB was everything about SV. Everything else didn’t matter. That’s significant when a lot of dev time was wasted towards making SV melee in the first place. One ability shined through and that was it.
It would have been the one thing that would have SAVED the spec, because it was otherwise crap and everyone knew it, but the elites didn’t care about what the lesser others wanted out of it.