To quote Brutus5000:
"Nerds have a really complicated relationship with change: Change is awesome when WE'RE the ones doing it. As soon as change is coming from outside of us it becomes untrustworthy and it threatens what we think of is the familiar."
– Benno Rice
Not saying that we're all nerds, but there is always a resistance to change. I do feel that in general there's too little experimentation surrounding the balance. Other games tend to be a lot more 'explosive' with their balance, some even to the extent that the previous meta no longer exists. I don't feel changing balance to that extent is viable, but we can experiment more and see where things end.
PPS: The increasing use of thread locking to end civil discussions on topics trying to change the status quo is a frustrating and undesirable trend and should be reduced. I would not like this thread to, for example, be closed with the claim that it has 'served its purpose' when it has not (which has repeatedly occurred with other threads).
If you're trying to turn this thread into 'civil discussions' and then end up being locked then you're on the right track. I prefer have a forum topic be closed the moment people feel the need for personal attacks or dive (too deep) into something that is completely unrelated to what the post is about. There's no room for the former, and you can make a new forum topic for the latter.