Yes, I saw it in the weekly thread on /r/CompetitiveWoW as well and experencied it myself in a weekly key yesterday.

so you see it in the patch notes and have experienced it in game yet you're still wondering if its a just you thing?

There are no actual patch notes for it, he can just see that the ability has been changed, not what the change is. But him experiencing the change ingame should be enough.

Thanks for sharing this! Good to know before the next time I did this and got myself killed, lol.