Saddest and truest thing I have ever read. People used to compare Feral to Affliction the other way round - as the melee DoT-based spec.
I wrote a long thread about the damage distribution of Feral and why it should be reverted to Rip (or Feral given the tools to succeed as Rogues, but that would be beyond dumb). A lot of the same issues the devs have with Feral, they definitely seem to have with Affliction. Why is even Affliction based around burst?