Whilst Blizzard had been trying and helping us Addon developers keep some features, as it stands any combat text features as you know them are dead.
I hope they will change this and provide a way for us to show and skin our incoming and outgoing events better.
@lofibanshee@jdotb I'm not defending his full stance - competition for addons still exists for usability.
But what they provide will not be improved upon. No new (combat) tech will appear unless blizzard adds it to the api. Which is how they want it.
Besides this I do think Jb is lad.
@lofibanshee@jdotb We won't be able to come up with new clever ways to calculate aug damage, help users with a better rotation assist or tweak timers to be perfect. We have to deal with what blizzard gives us. Which can also be wrong but we can't correct, only report.
@lofibanshee@jdotb You just see things happening rn to support the new style of apis - this is over soon and then you'll just have updates as blizzard adds new data. We can't do that ourselves due to the limitations. It's in blizzards hands instead of ours.