Yes, this is exactly why I called it homogenization. There were only three specs that used physical ranged weapons. Now there are only two. Meanwhile, there are, what, eight melee specs that can use polearms (and that's not counting windwalker, which used to be able to)? The agi staves have been less used, but if sv hadn't been changed, there would be as many of those as ranged weapon users even after the removal of windwalker.
It's homogenization. There's nothing wrong or even against "class fantasy" for there to be features unifying all the specs in a class. Of course, that comes back to the issue that the "class fantasy" buzzphrase that Blizzard keeps using actually means "spec fantasy."