Now that Augmentation has finally unquestionably fallen off the meta. I think it's a good time to ask the question of whether the spec will get reworked.
While I enjoy the playstyle. It being why I swapped to an Evoker in the patch it came out. It's no secret the spec has been controversial.
From the beginnings with being horrendously OP, all the way until the last patch. It proved that what made it good was the one thing it needed to be viable. The ability to trade a consistent DPS profile like what other specs had, with lots and lots of utility. Both CC and defensives.
The utility got picked apart piece by piece to try and make the spec less OP, and now that basically all of it has disappeared we are left with only a sub-par DPS that is heavily dependent on other good DPS to carry it.
And while this makes it easier to tune. It also leaves the uncomfortable question of why pick it at all when other specs don't become neutered when someone dies, or you have mechanics like the ones we see on Xav the Unfallen in Theater of Pain.
The question then becomes. Assuming the developers are reworking Augmentation heavily in some future expansion. (With maybe some support spec flavor remaining, like Power Infusion or what have you). Would people prefer the spec to become a proper DPS, stay as it is, or become a Tank like some players speculated before 10.1.5?