I don't think the AoW thing is related.
First, it's out of line with patch history.
What happened with the AoW thing shouldn't substantially affect pet aggro in the end. What happened is the following:
1) The original classic pet aggro rule was that mobs would attack a pet if players were in range only if the pet was a) on top of the theoretical aggro list and b) closest melee target.
2) Then a patch changed that rule so that whoever was highest on the hate list. PC or pet, would get aggro. LoS killed the AoW a few days later. A patch came in pretty soon after
3) For a few days after pet aggro was almost non existent
4) Then another patch, which reverted to the 1) ruleset in terms of aggro generation, but coded NPC behavior so that they would always ignore pet if another PC was in melee range.
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