Technical details on spell downranking

[Concillian]

And to be honest it feels like yet another of Blizzard's "Hey, you're using your initiative rather than playing your character how we demand you play it" toy-throwing feet-stamping exercises. You'd think they'd learn from Diablo 2.

If that was the case they would have changed the mechanics in the live game long ago. They are making the change at a time when they add other mechanics to compensate for the removal of this one, which seems to me more of a case where they wanted to remove it but didn't want to castrate healers at the same time or make current encounters impossible (like when they changed aggro mechanics and broke C'thun).