More like gone are the days of a single DK Vamp spamming Devouring Swarm repeatedly with no interruption in between taking out an entire group of players solo. Ultimates are supposed to be just that,
It's not dumbing it down for simplicity's sake--it's normalizing it across all classes. Now Dragonknights won't generate ultimate at several times the rate of other classes.
Also, I'm going to call BS on dropping Veil 8 seconds after one dissipates as a tank. I gain Ulti faster on my NB tank than I do my Temp tank, not quite as fast as my DK tank, but currently Ulti gain
5 minutes. Hell I've idled in town with a full ultimate bar and it's stayed up for at least an hour and then I go into a fight, kill something and it's gone. Nothing like pulling a group and having
Queue in the ESO Ultimate change. This is essentially a dumbing down of what was a dynamic system to "You get 3 ultimate every 8 seconds as long as you do a light attack".