Realms pushed back to 5PM PDT now
Never worked on Ret, it was a cookie-cutter spec that was copy/pasted. I was pretty much prot-only the entire time and when Wrath caused the paladin population to boom with the ret changes I stayed there because I didn't want to be associated with all the noob paladins who just wanted to smash 2 -3 buttons and win.
Threat generation? It's possible, but I wasn't having an immensely hard time keeping threat on what I had to or had DPS ripping it off me constantly so I doubt it was as terrible as you claim. Especially when you consider how downright horrible other tanks have been during the expansion.
If you want to crunch numbers and use math to assure your high-seat then go find a private Vanilla realm.
You're so stupid, and alone