one of the main problems for affliction is that two of the traits that have been very good for us throughout the expansion are going to be literally useless and unusable once prepatch hits,
you will no longer be able to proc cascading calamity because you cannot apply a second UA to a target.
and inevitable demise is being turned into a talent, and regardless of if you take the talent or not you can gain the buff from the trait but if will never use them up when you cast drain life.
when 8.3 launched and ny’alotha they added the “BiS” traits to all azerite pieces, these generally being cascading calamity, so all of the azerite gear i have collected on the most recent patch will be garbage once prepatch hits because all of them have either casscading calamity, inevitable demise or a compeltely trash trait that does zero damage.
thats why there is a big problem with how azerite is working on pre patch, it should be getting removed exactly the same as corruption is, but i guess the devs are being lazy with it and not removing it for some reason