"Every facet of PVP can be easily learned from online sources, if you want to know the abilities of other classes the info is available."

Umm, same with pve...where do you think guilds get their strats? From the top 100's who figured them out. Where do you think people get their pvp strats/comps, from the top. Both have plenty of information on them online so I view it as a non issue.

"At the high end of Arena, you just need to know how the cookie cutter class combos of the current patch are played, because that's all that exists at the high end."

Riiight, so everyone running the cookie cutter spec(which I do agree with) automatically gets a 2500+ rating? No, they beat all the other comps and strats because they know the comp better and have the ability to beat those same comps.

And the whole drummer bit, we'll have to agree to disagree because I won't even go into how dumb that sounds? A pvp player isn't going to be good at pve because he is too twitchy not to stand in the fire? They are not 2 different skill sets and whatever anecdotal evidence you have of this is simply that, your limited experience.