I feel like vers made the biggest difference to in how powerful my character felt. When I finally broke 20% on my healers bgs felt so much more enjoyable.
Same with tanking, my warrior feels much more balanced after 15%. My indomitable is better and my intake is even lower. All around pretty good.
I do agree that eating food, gemming and enchanting it feels very lackluster. It’s also a slow build stat so unless you acquire a ton of it quickly it’s hard to compare. I feel like high crit or haste (especially in classes that have procs tied to it) feels better in the way up. Difference between 0 vers and 15% is tangible. Difference between 5% crit and 10% crit is also tangible.
I semi agree with you, but not usually unhappy with it since I play tanks.