When something is abused and make fight useless to be held, thats where a change need to be made.
Same thing happened with "revive", it take a large player base to make a change and GM/admin idea has to allign to make a change.
They dont change because of spam, they make it a priority when its exposed alot.
Same thing shouldve happened with Summuning not beiing allowed to be used while on combat or having a CD.
But yeah, I agree. Items shouldnt be changed easily based on player base, they need to be changed for a better or more suitable purpose.
Adding CD wont do that for protective, which purpose is to "survive" when you shouldnt have.
Lets see what they mean with the change, then we can start arguing if its a good or bad idea.