Notice how it's locked now? It hit a sore spot but gathered a lot of support. The vicious cycle of balance patching will continue until the broken process is fixed. A proactive approach of opening up the beta server to additional folks would go a long way to fixing some of the obvious issues before the patch is published.
Noticed. In my humble opinion, I think the discussion was easily deviated in the wrong direction by putting "obvious soviet side facts" in the top thread.
That removed, I think you could have gotten better attention on your main purpose...at least for more than half a page!