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That has always been this way. Jade Druid Meta was a shitshow, complains about the deck like now about the meta. Solution for everyone: Just add Skulking Geist. Useless and terrible card in any other matchup. Guess what happened...
8 out of my 10 games were against Quest Mage, so my Quest Warlock never stood a chance. I switched to Quest Zoo Lock (who is slightly favored against Mage) and guess what, 9 Handbuff Paladins in a row... Not saying it's rigged or anything, but this is exactly what happens, when your game is not balanced around strategy, where any deck can compete with any deck on equal terms, but rather around matchups, where you are favored or unfavored by coin flip...
The last sentence is the exact problem we have. In the old days you could win, even when you were unfavoured and you could tech some cards to even improve your chances. Today the matchups are mostly decided if you see, what you're opponent is playing
That's only true because players are incapable of adjusting their playstyle to stand a chance in unfavorable matchups.
Let's say you play control priest aiming to farm Handbuff paladins, face hunters and so on. You happen to face an OTK Demon Hunter. You don't have Illucia in your deck. Do you just accept your faith and sit back and wait till turn 8 or so when the opponent kills you? No. You should adjust your playstyle and even though you are technically a control deck, try to swarm the board. Look for Draconic Studies, then look for sticky dragons like Dragonmaw Sky Stalker and Onyx Magescribe. Then look for buffs like Power Word: Feast, Power Infusion, Psyche Split, Power Word: Fortitude and try to kill them before they kill you. Or at least make them spend some of their combo pieces (Mo'arg & lifesteal spells) to remove your board. This might delay their combo long enough for a Mutanus play. Or make them waste enough combo pieces that they can't hit you for more than 24. There are different paths that can lead to a win, but if you don't realize that you need to adjust your playstyle in some matchups, of course you are going to have a 0% win rate.
TL/DR: No matchup is unwinnable if you are flexible enough to adjust your gameplay
BUT toO MUcH diSCoVeR IS bAd fOr ThE gaMe!
Jokes aside, I wholeheartedly agree that adjusting your gameplan on the fly is a great idea. Not every class can do that, though. And it's discover cards that allow that flexibility. But a lot of people seem to think that discovering cards and generating other stuff is bad for the game.
The community is torn in different directions on pretty much all matters. Even if you give them a solution, they will complain you're hand holding. How dare you!
Most classes cannot adjust to whatever they want, since their capabilities depend on available cards. Let's say you want to build anti Handbuff Paladin deck, using Warlock. So, what can you do exactly? Well, actually... nothing, because you have zero tools to beat that deck with any kind of consistency. It has better tempo (initiative), stronger and stickier minions, buffs, weapons, value etc. Warlock can't match his power in any way, unless he's extremely lucky and Paladin is not.
There are too many comments to answer them on by one (I'm the OP) so I'll just give general comments regarding everything I've read:
Lots of people agree with you (I am not one) but the split seems to be around 50/50 love/hate it. Those of us that aren't happy have to deal with that. I wouldn't focus overly on the salty replies, and you did set one of the more legit expansion discussion threads going on here.
The only reason I used to play constructive was to figure out cool otk-style or otherwise big payoff decks to play, but those were always slow games. This expac, a few classes have OTK decks and they all end the game before turn 7. Not that fun if you like to build your own decks.
The priest quest will never be a thing. It's like 3 times slower than the other ones.
This is a terrible way to interpret the complaints. Whether or not the combo decks are too powerful isn't really the issue, it's how many uninteractive decks they added. I have had like two actual games since the patch released.
Besides that, combo decks being too good early is actually a terrible sign for their balance level. The early game is punishing for combo decks because so many people just slam the same old face decks or have already refined the brainless to refine aggro decks. These combo decks are unrefined messes right now and if they're still smashing, that's a terrible sign.
Regardless of how it settles, the only good outcome from this expansion is that basically none of the cards actually see play. Just look at the questline for priest - it doesn't even pretend like it's some clever, cool combo that takes a brain to pull off (like everyone used to pretend about Shudder or Mechacthun). It's just a card that says you win. They typically add one solitaire combo deck or so an expansion - no clue why they needed to add like 7 this time around.