It does seem like the tier is over-thrown with independent sweepers, all of which get so much time because chandelure narrows the gap for such a team to diminish whats left of their's after you remove a specific counter.
However, I doubt that it's prominently Chandelure that is solely the "new metagame" because there are Pokemon like Deoxy-S, Dragonite, Genosect, Breloom, and many other threats, that thrive inside and out of weather, for better or worse. That said, most successful teams shouldn't always have to rely on those exclusory counters in order to deal with the vast majority of questionably strong "suspects", as they tend to countervail one another in some way.
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