I have not been playing shadow in pvp, but I have a similar thing with playing mage.
I get actively punished by Blizzard bc I don’t want to waste my time getting rammed by a warrior who won’t get the f*** off me, or a hunter shooting a ballista through my skull.
Funny, bc I have an Outlaw which I respeced into assa, and I am destroying everything in my wake. Nothing of off limits when I am playing Melee.
These warriors, DHs players lack any critical thinking, its abhorrent how I have to use my vast skill of being a trickster mage player and yet its still not enough to stop charge charge heroic leap heroic leap from coming at me from across an arena map.
Clearly, I missed the memo of Warlocks SOMEHOW getting 430k health + drain life + shield from god knows where, vs my wee little pathetic 315k - 380k health. I don’t know why I am subbing to this game for its failed PvP systems and god awful maps but it is what it is. Maybe if I play Solo Shuffle- oh yeah they murdered that game mode from Shadowlands.
Shadowlands unironically had tolerable PvP, I felt so much in control than DF PvP.