I think Ghostcrawler has that honor with merit.
He has been a WoW developer since before D3 was in the works, and would know of the policies from Blizzard HQ itself. That's a design policy, Nerraw, regardless of department. It's well known that Blizzard regarded things like arena being one of their worst mistakes, for example...
http://wow.joystiq.com/2009/11/13/bl...ere-a-mistake/
And please don't tell us because Pardo has no bearing on how WoW is made or the design philosophies at Blizzard. -_-