Fine. But the fact is, even if everyone runs Nertea, Nertea is hardly a "roll over and die" card. Any of your companions, in a Dwarf choke, can survive a Nertea and, the choke strategy should be able to clog your opponent long enough to pull off a win with the shadow. Dwarves aren't designed to run to site 9, they're designed to waddle along to site 4-5 and then have the shadow kill off your opponent.
Also, I never stated that Dwarves are the be-all, end-all. I said they were the best deck until Horn. And then yeah, the broken decks can probably crush them. But that doesn't mean they're not still viable.