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At the risk of sounding like a pure troll, I will say what I think.
You say that there shouldn't be one spec to rule them all. I disagree. Not because I like fire or anything, I even had plans to try arcane spec before 2.1 came out. I think every spec has strenght and weaknesses. That's pretty much it. Most fights will cater to one or another spec strenghts more than another spec, and that one spec will be considered the best spec.
It's pretty simple, arcane build will/should destroy anything sub 3 min fights. It will also trump absolutely everything out of the water on a fight requiring the most extreme of extreme DPM. I also believe that the cool part about arcane spec is that there isn't as much a need to do stopcasting because you can burn all that excess mana without trouble, whereas a fire spec is unable to dps more than its full-burn cycle. And since fire spec typically finish with sadly plenty of mana to spare, this means the only mean to burn through that mana is to actually cast faster; ie: do stopcasting.
While this is purely theorical talks here, I believe spellhaste offers realistically not much to an arcane spec, based on the fact that spellhaste or not you *can go oom if you wish to. And to the best of my knowledge, any amount of spellhaste that can be worn by a mage does not allow to fundamentally change the cast rotation of an arcane mage (unless someone has tried to make good use of the craptacular exalted ashtongue deathsworn trinket ?). Spellhaste *could fundamentally change the way an arcane mage is played, but given that it is hardly possible to get more than 13% spell haste, i don't see how that can happen.
With this said, I am looking forward to see the effects of a fire mage in 4pc t6 and spellhaste gear. At this point it is speculative whether it is better to use spellhaste over the alternative gears for more crit/hit, but I believe that it should be one of the best dps stat.
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