Here's the deal if you still havn't found peace with the updates.
GW is about creativity and willingness to explore.
People explore the game, find a unique build that works well and use it. A month from now, if it's too powerful, it might change, and you can go find another one. Some that just found out how to use it get incredibly ticked because they decided to use an ranger spike for only a day or two before it was nerfed and they lost their chance of getting some quick fame.
"You punish those who exploit and give us nothing!"
If you're afraid to use a certain build that works great because you think it's going against the rules, then it's of your own fault that you didn't use it. I'd think that most people would realize by now that ANet isn't going to ban your account because you decided to spirit spam, unfortunately, there are still "U uzed 2 be fun". Also, I don't neccesarily believe in the cycle of pwnage builds. They're all out there in every update, but the simplest ones that come out the soonest are usually the most common. There's probably a handful of builds that are as good if not better but they're too caught up in the FOTM build to try out any others.
If you felt you already knew all this, good for you. If you want to flame me, go ahead, I don't know anybody here well enough to feel offended. This is just me wasting 5 minutes of my time for my 2 cents
