Theorycrafting is more centralized and instantaneously visible than ever before. People compute results and instantly disseminate them through a whole community in real time, for example in class discords, with each beta update.

This is destroying feedback. >

Buff/nerf discourse drowns out so much discussion that I often have a hard time, frankly, being able to parse feedback to any productive end. Even if I want to go reading about opinions on a spec, it's hard to know what's untainted by it.

It can often appear that personal feedback (by definition: recounting of people's reactions to specific elements/moments while playing) is dwarfed by opinions originating from some consensus of whether there was a net buff relative to some prior update.

Anyway, I don't know want to do about this. But the correlation between collective emotional valence in response to a class/combat change, and immediate isolated power impact of the change, is so strong that it's hard to reach confident conclusions that aren't affected by it.