Never seen a difference in passion with other games that do have dominating characters either. Should be there for the competition, the reads, the blowups etc. It's just been 3 yrs, which at this point, intial hype is long gone.
Both jin and bob were out for several years in there respective game b4 the general consensus was "these characters might be too strong", but even so ppl werent crying doom and gloom when that was the case, Leeroy's been out for 6 weeks, at least let the character settle first b4 claiming the game is dead