I've never lost an AV on my server as Horde, before or after the patch. Horde can't as easily zerg now, so the tactic has changed to more balanced offense and defense, but even outnumbered and with half the players AFKed in the starting area or graveyards in a particularly close match, we managed to squeak out a win. Having people on defense is a better way to play, and with less reason to make a mad dash for the finish line in the beginning, horde is better organized, and with increased incentive for alliance to play offense they seem to be ignoring defense almost entirely.

The changes have changed the way the game is played, but I wouldn't say that the horde or alliance are worse off now than before...

Not to say Horde is unilaterally better. Horde has certainly lost AV, I simply haven't been in those particular AVs. I have to join a premade to get a full team in EotS, and at times Horde can't win an AB or WSG to save their lives. There are times of day when horde in my battlegroup is disastrously unorganized, unreasonably aggressive, and under-represented in general, so I generally avoid BGs during that time. It isn't my intent to insult the Alliance in my Battlegroup, most of them can pretty easily kill my pathetic little rogue.