Well I for one probably did misconstrue it. My train of thought went like this. Oh, there's an article on Massively dealing with stuff in the new Beta release, It must be a review. I'll go read it. Huh. Ok, that's not a review. Why wouldn't they do a review? Let's read it anyway. I don't know a damn thing about meta, it's not why I play. If this isn't coupled with a review then I'm not the audience for this. I hope they write an actual review later.
Does it express concerned opinions that are shared by many HC players? I dunno. According to this thread and so on it seems to. Have I met anyone in game talking about this particular aspect of things? No, I haven't. Now that's all anecdotal and subjective to me and my tiny group so your mileage may vary. Again, I hope they write an actual review. And back to the game.