Ya, what you said is completely true for hybrids. Hybrids get
the short end of the stick, because they have factor in their raid
purpose as well as for soloing.
Hybrids are any class with a function other than DPS'ing.
Warriors - Tanks
Priests - Healers
Druids - Healers
Paladins - Healers
Shamans - Healers (although in TBC they can almost behave as a full
DPS class)
Warlocks, Mages, Rogues and Hunters are all very fortunate for
their main goal can simply focus on DPS gear and equipment.
Paladins are fortunate that T2 is spell damage, or else they're
equally screwed like Priests.
Perhaps a saving grace is that in BC, all Tier equipment can be
chosen towards a different playing focus. Although at the end of
the day, healing classes are just gonna be forced to choose healing
gear. Pallies I guess are luckier as they are not expected to be
main healers and can get away with spell damage gear rather than
pure healing.
All I can say is that being a priest, you typically need a close
group of friends to assist one another for every situation. My wife
is lucky like that. Any thing her priest needs done, she'll bug me
to assist her.
I note that in BC, alot of gear is centric towards a tanking
paladin. This is certainly new ground, one that has been typically
ignored.
I'm having serious temptations to go Shammie 
