I've played this game for several years now with time on both factions. Losing strategies, general "derpage" have been in this game since forever and on both sides for that matter. That said there's still a reason, presently, BG's on alliance outside AV/IOC are worse now than they have ever been. Also in the past, it was generally more possible for 1 skilled player to help turn the tide substantially, not so true anymore.
Not only is "The Lion Roars" being a total failure a symptom of the problem, it is in fact a cause. While attempting it, eventually, I got to the point where I brought my shaman in to just AFK and hope that we did well (of course, we didn't). Once behind it was just yeah, AFK so I don't get deserter (I NEVER AFK bgs, at least not while they weren't a 2% win rate for alliance) . It got me to the point of actually thinking about botting the BG's something I would NEVER have come CLOSE to considering otherwise. The point is that character should never be in a BG to begin with. I have toons I do PvP on, that is not one of them. I do not give a shit to fill my bag space and spend hours getting "PvP gear" outside of two wins I'm never, ever going to use.
But instead I am FORCED to contribute to the problem. I don't get why that quest, truly a cancer on BG's, just hasn't been fucking obliterated yet. I also think Alliance players deserve 2 secrets in compensation per week wasted on that quest, but that's me.