I think what they were pointing out was a class that recently has gotten a lot of love, and rightfully so, Ret paladins has been suffering for a long time so it’s great they’ve been put back in the spotlight.
However the affixes you highlight, all of them us warriors have utility against, shouting, slowing, stunning, but as I have been saying previously our CC is quite weak compared to other classes especially if it’s a large group of mobs that are Bolstered or Raging, we can AOE hamstring up to 5 of them, cool that is good, Intimidating Shout kinda gets nullified as we can give a window for tank to step away but they still need killing so the CC gets broken very fast. Best thing we can do is throw down a Spear of Bastion but that is one of our major DPS cooldowns as well.
For Explosive, target switching has never been too ideal for Fury but its a very short window for it, Heroic Throw works great for ones in range, takes a bit more effort and might stifle some rotations and DPS output but its not a huge deal.
Sanguine is the same strat for warriors as any other class without complete damage immunity, just don’t stand in it, we’re also one of the lucky ones considering our leap.
It is one thing if a class / role is less capable or if the class / role has a lower priority when it comes to affix wrangling, however being completely unable to do anything about it feels new to me and makes me feel useless seeing as JUST doing damage, often no matter how much, is not going to save the group from affixes or mechanics.
Through my whining and moaning the intention is never to trample down and / or take away utility from any other class to make the playing field an equal level of “these classes aren’t useful”. I don’t think WoW is in a state these days where there can be balance in all things and every class and spec has their own 5-set of CC and utility. But I feel and think that despite our unique spells like Spell Reflect, Rallying Cry, and stuff like that, that are all good to some extent, we do fall short. And it is a glaring fact when we get affixes like these.
I guess my core ask / argument is that Blizzard doesn’t leave ideas like these for too long so that the spec ends up in the dirt and so out of the meta that I won’t be able to play my favorite spec due to designed, albeit accidental, neglect.