The smart ones play it to it's full power and say it's a pain.
The ones who enjoy it isn't playing it to it's full power.
Seems about right Requital?
*Edit*
imo the "main" reason for retributions clunky FCFS rotation system is the terrible scaling of our haste = reduced CD on crusader strike. ATM the required haste for retribution paladins to be "capped" is 4k + latency margine + raidbuffs. Once we can achieve that our rotation won't depend on a proc 95% of the time, also once we reach that point our holy power generation will be alot better than it's now. 4sec CD on Crusader strike = 15 holy power per minute (assuming we actually use CS on cd, which we don't because of GCD mainly) once we get 3sec CD we will get 20holy power per minute with less downtime from other abilities. At best we can see 1 or 2 templars verdict per minute more, assume 1 templars verdict and that hits normally for 45-50k noncrit. that's still almost 1k dps increase without thinking about increased melee swings, exor procs from melee swings, increased dot tics, increased number of crusader strikes and so on.
What blizzard REALLY needs to do to make the "feel" of retribution paladins to be where it can and SHOULD be is set the 3sec CD haste requirement for retribution paladins to 2k haste rating or 2.5k max. There's a reason why we got a talent to reduce our only way of holy power generation and we still reforge and gear away from it and that's because it's unreachable for starters but also it butchers our mastery "stacking" which is our best secondary stat.
Imo retribution secondary stat priority should be:
Hit + Exp cap > haste to cap (2.5k max) > mastery > crit.
Right now all we care about is being hit and exp capped and then mastery. I honestly don't look at crit or haste anymore, if i can obtain items with crit and mastery ill much rather take them rather than ones with mastery haste but that's just because haste only increases our melee swings and dot's very, very slightly where crit has a chance to make our abilities hit twice as hard.
Don't know if others feel the same way but im tired being balanced around our worst secondary stat.