Every few weeks/months, Ghostcrawler makes comments about balance and the dps delta between classes and specs. He has been abundantly clear that the damage/dps deltas are small enough at this point that they are negligible for every single encounter and that specs are mostly interchangeable for the purposes of downing bosses.
However, he has also made clear that in practice, players still over-represent highest theoretical dps specs and stigmatize theoretically lower specs. In BC the delta was about 30% from top dps to lowest dps. They have shrunk that to around 5%. So I got to thinking about this and wondered what you all thought about it, too.
If the numbers are as Ghostcrawler says, at this point, what benefit is there in allowing players to have so much access to the numbers side of the game. According to him, there is literally no upside to allowing players to have enough information for theorycrafting calculators and certain kinds of parses to work.
If what he's saying is correct, would it not be in the best to just break raidbots and WOL altogether? Would that result in a positive, more inclusive WoW raiding culture where players are judged based on their individual performance instead of accepted, rejected, or ridiculed based on theorycrafting and rigged rankings?