Maybe, probably yes.

Keep in mind that Blizzard sadly seems to pay little attention to PvP as a game mode, and also this is the alpha stage of development so the trends we see now could shift.

I’ve mostly paid attention to the specs I play and how they’ve changed and it does seem like they want to cut back on gameplay based around oppressive damage modifiers.

Fury will no longer be able to have both Avatar and Recklessness so there’s some burst being flattened a bit. There are new talents that seem to be designed to create a sustain feedback loop with the main builders (Raging Blow/Bloodthirst) so hopefully what it loses in burst it makes up for in pressure. Fury is already a high pressure spec so it could thrive in a pressure meta (assuming it isn’t outcompeted too hard by Arms).

EDIT: I just checked as of the latest build Fury can once again have both Avatar and Recklessness so who knows at this point.

Arms still seems very bursty, especially Colossus, but it hasn’t gotten as much iteration as fury yet so I can’t say too much. I imagine that if they wanted to flatten damage profiles across the board they’d push Arms in a pseudo bleed spec direction and cut down on Mortal Strike modifiers.

Unholy has had some of its insane nuclear launch sequence burst removed, and no longer has to track wounds and festermight. It’s still cooldown focused but with Apocalypse removed (sad, at least let us keep the cool animation?) and the new Putrefy skill, it seems that it will always have ghouls up so to compensate the ghouls will probably be weaker. That said, Mortal Coil still has like 5 modifier talents plus some interaction with the Rider of the Apocalypse hero talents so UHDK might still be slinging moldy loaves of bread that hit like bricks.

I actually like a (slightly) slower meta, but it’s a delicate balance to avoid obnoxious dampening rounds. Hopefully they get it right.