Sounds a lot more like a reason why Atonement sucks for the fight, not so much Disc.
Personally I tried both Holy and Disc on this fight back when it was progression, and had better results as Disc despite much higher HPS as Holy because people spent a fraction of the time getting new shell buffs when I was Disc. As Holy they basically fell off every stomp, wasting a colossal amount of time for every other player in the raid over the course of the fight.