The last time Ret was legit strong in any sense was WTLK and even then in pve tons of the usual classes still outranked them just not by as much as they do now, always pisses me off when somebody sees some exploit or some videos of idiots allowing rets to full stack crusade or something like that in pvp and then calls ret "broken" in pvp.
Like I tried explaining to somebody today why Ret shouldn't have holy power anymore, or if they insist on keeping it we should have something outside tier smoothing out Holy Power generation. Because I pointed out how we have to pool holy power sometimes to save it for a DS before some big AoE part to make sure we even do dmg and the person said "So do rogues!" I had to explain to him that rogues can easily get all their combo points back like instantly and how they have talents and traits that smooth out the generation. Overall I think people just remember a stupid moment where they let bubble actually get them killed and they just can't let that go.
Its just irritating that anytime something worked out good for a ret pally which made them decent or heck strong it gets nerfed to the ground for them but left completely alone for other classes, most recent being CoF, hell when they bother to finally nerf a trinket for spec that its stupidly strong for they can't even fully do that and reverse their decision mostly *draught for warriors being the most recent*