I am on a dedicated raid team but I feel the same way as you do. I was actually expecting more people to bring up lore issues in this thread than they did.
In regards to pvp...this may sound cynical but I'm starting to wonder if Blizzard deliberately leaves things unbalanced in pvp so that players end up rerolling (and keeping their subs active) so that they may be competitive in bgs and arena, I've never read/heard so many complaints regarding pvp balance before and I've been playing this game for a long while now.