To the new balance mods, I'd like to point you to the balance proposal rules for future considerations of proposal topics:
viewtopic.php?f=95&t=17556Topics formatted appropriately and supplying evidence for a particular viewpoint should be moved to Discussion regardless of the moderators' personal opinion about the topic.
viewtopic.php?f=96&t=11105Our Aims
useless or underperforming elements of a class or archetype are improved
we will not consider the current power of a class when dealing with underpowered or useless abilities, and we will not allow discussions regarding underperforming aspects of a viable class to be blocked by players pointing out that the class is already viable.
To build upon this case... The KoTBS had a tactic entirely removed from their kit without even the slightest bit of compensation, needlessly putting them a tactic short in their arsenal. To say that the existence of a dead tactic is not a problem for the class or player and that it's not worthy of being looked at is flippant at best, and counter to the above posted "aims" at the very least. The argument that other classes have plenty of tactics they don't use is a complete cop-out and a fallacy-ridden proposition. Ideally those other under-used tactics will see some attention in these balance threads too...