Nor happy or either sad, but being very honest my problem with PVE items on BGs is you have "DMG Advantage" over the other classes, ofc arcane mage/unholy dk/enh shaman also have advantage vs the other classes even with full PVP items because they can do higher DPS in comparison with the other classes.
Something i find strange is seeing people saying "i ended up in 2nd" even if they have 5 flags/bases capped and the rest of the team have 0, ofc WoW flag/base system award only goes to 1 player if capped and the others don't get an "assist" for helping capping flag/base zone. (and sadly this is something they never changed)
I remember when playing bgs even with really good players they didn't care about defend, play for the objective they were only focused on kills, ofc killing it's what gives the fun, the challenge, and review the what needs to be improved and how to counter this and that, ofc dmg is relevant but bgs shouldn't be about spawnkilling or senseless focus only on killing, or trying hard to hit the TOP1 DMG place but strategic playing, organization. (that's why i made the low time bgs reference and flag/bases caps)
Oh well after writting this i remembered how hard to is organize a team with random players or expect your team to be organized and play strategically.
PVP should be balanced in theory but sadly this will never happen, some classes clearly have a lot advantages over others, and bringing PVE items to a PVP battle only increases the gap of never being balanced/fair. (this gap only happens if you're good player, lol.)
Memories from some BGs when you got members from Chemical or FATALITY or D O N O R S even other old/new respected PVP guilds/players on your BG group, and you expected an organized team with well structured playing method, it always ended up in spawn boring killing/taking much more time than needed, no defending, and sometimes your team letting the only player that cared about flag/cap/objective playing dying because 99% of your team members were only focused on spawn killing.
And yet people give so much importance to the DMG done.