Well I thought with 7.1.5 Blizzard was trying to achieve the obvious. If you get an item that has e.g 880ilvl it will be better than an item 860ilvl no matter what the stats are.
Unfortunately for my class and spec we were siming on intellect>haste etc, now we are siming on haste>intellect sort of forcing me to take an 860ilvl item with haste over a non haste one...
(I am playing as a destruction lock which was siming Int>haste>all other stats, now its Haste>Int=all other stats).
What did they succeed with cutting down stats?