After capping my rogue

[Kevin]

I'd definatly say yes on bosses - if they are being played right.  The priest who immieadiatly goes Shadowform and refuses to leave is just as lame as the leader who kicks them.  Same for the druid who spends all of his time in cat form.

But if you can be flexible... say only casting SW:P to keep shadow weaving up sometimes, then healing, then there is no reason you are NOT part of even a min-maxed group.  Or the druid who shifts out of feral when the healers start going light on mana to give their pots a chance to finish cooling down, then back to finish off the boss when he is down to his last couple of hundred mana.
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My favorie example is in BWL where the melee DPS (and ranged for that matter) are told they take care of themselves and they have to move out of LoS to wait out a debuff at times anyway. Feral druids are freaking perfect for this. It is possible to get too many debuff's stacked again before your bandage is back. Well feral druids have to back out to heal themselves via bandage or spell as well. If they are still waiting for the debuff to go away their mana isn't doing any good. So throwing a heal on the recently bandaged by still injured DPS people could very well mean they get back into th fight sooner. You don't always know if they are waiting on the debuff or the bandage cooldown.

You dont' have to assign another healer to these people. They get a bandage, or a feral druid heal or nothing (in 1.1 they might get a lightwell). I can't see how that doesn't help as a feral druid in the right gear is going to push some good DPS still and they will get that rogue back into battle quicker and some of the time give them 3% more crit as well. Replacing them with another rogue is not better because of the time that will still need to be spent OOC on the debuffs. Having another healer heal them doesn't really help because of the debuff thing as well and if the healer is using mana there because they have it you have too much healing or aren't optimizing your DPS.

Just one place where I think feral druids (or moonkins to boost the caster DPS but drop to heal when needed) are better than any other option you have, min/max or not.