I feel like the average quality of offlaners has gone up since the change to which roles are high demand. There's a lot of obvious previous support mains picking Tide, Axe, and Centaur, but they always have impact and are never useless. On the other hand, I've been seeing way fewer Wraith Kings, Necrophos's, and Snipers in the offlane building late Radiances or Midases and being useless farm vacuums. As for myself, I've played three whole games of Axe, dominated my lane every time, and solidly won all of them. I think core players might just be whiny and stupid, this role is easy.