They have gradually made the diversity of this game smaller and smaller. A few updates ago, you could easily wreck some serious s**t in BG's and even Cyrodiil, with a bow/bow Nightblade. Now it's like near impossible. S&B is pretty usless now too, there was really no problem to run a DK with S&B and "whatever" backbar, that's becoming increasingly difficult now.
Resto staff was what at least I used to rely on as a magblade, when it was destroyed, I made a few attempts to play a more oldschool magblade before I gave up. What was left, was the option to use it for something else, or use it for a shield stacking 60k magicka kind of magblade. I could go on, but I would just be called negative and bitter. Maybe it's true, but nevertheless, the game is becoming less and less diverse. So many kinds of builds you can't run anymore.