Every class should be mortified by the Elemental Shaman 8.1 changes

Elemental Shaman has receives two changes in 8.1, and regardless of balance, they show something that should worry everyone about Blizzard's current mindset. The two changes are replacing a boring passive talent from 8.0 with a new talent.The first talent increases maelstrom by 30. This was an artifact trait that was released with Concordance. It's on a row with Echo of the Elements, the talent required to make the spec feel somewhat fluid, and Elemental Blast, a big part of Legion's rotation. See a trend? In Legion we had access to all three of these things because one was an artifact trait and the other two were on separate rows. Now we have to pick one. (I'm an idiot and got this part wrong reading the patch note. It's on another row with single target talents. The fact that it's an artifact trait is still true however)​The second talent empowers your spell cast after Earth Shock. Most people are really excited by the burst it provides if you use the buff on Lightning Bolt. What does it do with Lightning Bolt? An effect that was a golden trait in legion. If you use it with the level 100 talent Stormkeeper, which was our artifact ability, you get nice burst. So in 8.1, I need to pick two talent rows to get two things that were on my artifact weapon.The talent also empowers Lava Burst with an effect that was on the artifact weapon as a trait, and empowers flame shock with no cooldown which was baseline in legion.​So the ''big changes'' coming in 8.1 for Elemental Shaman are literally all artifact weapon recycling into talents. No baseline changes to make the spec engaging. No new innovative ideas. Literally a cheap, more limited version of the Legion class. This is baffling and there should be a lot more anger about this instead of looking at the nice numbers. This is a level of game development so poor, so deaf, everyone should be scared by this. This is what a top tier company is doing with years of development and feedback.