I agree with this mostly. AP really is OP- people are "shooting the gun" for a reason in this case.
But yeah, there's of specs where's there's literally no reason to play them. MM is better than virulence in every category, and pve too. AP has better sustain, burst, and survivability than pyro- in 3.X it had more sustain in PVE, but now that's not even the case. I don't understand what they're thinking. They nerfed the surge talents for maras and ops, but kept it for AP and MM? Why do they think this is ok?