I'm not getting heated? What on earth gave you that impression?
I don't think it's unreasonable to defend myself when you tell me I haven't played a spec that I have played.. because you disagree with my comment about something subjective?
It's a bit rich for you to accuse me of making assumptions after quite literally explaining how because I said the rotation felt shallow, and some other people who said it was OP also said that, I therefor think the spec is OP.. That's an actual assumption.
My ask was for more depth in spec design rather than the trend of DH/Ret/BM/Shadow style reworks we've had recently that attempt to combine spells / remove flavour and oversimplify all the while increasing damage. When I play ret or shadow now, they, to me, don't feel particularly engaging or appropriate to how I view the specs. Shadow, arguably, is maybe even close to being genuinely over powered.
I don't main ret pally because I main holy priest and enhancement shaman, as I have done since TBC. It doesn't mean I don't play ret, it means I don't main ret. That being said, I've had a max level ret pally in every expansion that I've played with the exception of WoD. In SL it was literally the only character I even bothered with, mostly because Belf ret pally + revendreth was a good look, rather than it's play style.
I tend not to read threads about 'x spec is OP' because, well, I don't really care who does what numbers.
Plus, it's a bit weird to complain about the performance of ret when prot pally's exist. If there was any spec that needs to be reigned in, it's that one.
My opinions are not assumptions based on seeing a pink bar in details.