Intended? No, but it was pointed out to Blizzard back in the beta and they did nothing. Then just before 5.2 I think they announced something about how it was wrong that prot wanted rets tier pieces (questionable...) but then I can't remember if they said any more. Basically they were given warning, didn't do anything about it and haven't attempted to change it so they must be content about it now at least. This is the second tier of the three we get normally, so it's quite late to actually do anything about it, 6 months through.
People can theorize about the parry/dodge for GC change being their attempt to change it but within about... an hour of it being announced, the whole community said "Doesn't change a thing" and they would have known that, so it's clear they haven't said "Oh no, we can't be having that" and are cool with it. Just have to wait and see whether they change us back in the next expansion, or whether they make DK's and Warriors similar to us. Having said that though, we could see another big stat overhaul so...