Some of the best artwork the game has ever seen, brought back one of the best mechanics in the game with highlander, card balance was mostly pretty good and all kinds of deck archetypes had representation. A top 5 set for the game, arguably top 3. We should do more of that.
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Problem with its power is that we are still playing it so such great add-ons could turn into an issue with time.
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But they’re also the reason people still keep playing (at least that’s how it seems to me based on my own experience and catastrophic feedback towards the newer expansions)
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I agree that Un’goro and Kobolds and Catacombs was peak, though personally Classic/Naxxramas was also peak
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With all respect.
It wasn’t bad but think about Highlander as “Peak design” is Very childish and i sure that as you mature as a card game player your opnion on this Will change.
I personally love the ungo’ro meta and what people miss on it is that it only was Quest rogue hell on lower ranks.
I would even say that the deck was a good metagame filter that maintained only proactive strategies as the game should be played.
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We could only find after the next reset when many cards for most decks will be gone. Who knows what may show up (or not).
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Yes, Badlands was peak. With that spirit in mind, un-nerf Azerite Snek. 
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I dunno man, I didn’t like most of it. The theme and art were awful and I hate it; the wild west is an american culture trope I don’t care about, and retconning the badlands for it felt dumb as hell to me. I hated most highlander wincons and Reno in particular. Excavate was the only thing I did like in the expansion. And balance-wise it was all over the place with horrible balance decisions, like the day 2 snake nerf.
Overall, it probably was the best expansion in the past 2 years, but to me that is because the past 2 years of this game have been absolutely horrible. The peak of the game since I started playing for me was the year of Barrens-Stormwind-Alterac. The game was perfect to me back then and has been on an almost constant downward slope since then. I am mostly just playing battlegrounds now, it’s infinitely superior rn. Standard’s design team has a huge problem, I am sorry to say.
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The entire year of the Wolf (Festival of Legends, Titans and Showdown in Badlands) was good (once the necessary nerfs and buffs were implemented).
So far, i am not thrilled by the first 2 xpac of the current year (year of the pegasus). In fact, this year seems to take the same path as the infamous year of the griffon (Forged in the barrens, United in stormwind and fractured in Alterac Valley). A lot of emphasis on speed and combo.
Stormwind was great even that back then quests felt terrible at times. 
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Badlands was an ugly set.
But it’s right in line with Whizbang and Perils.
They went from a childish theme to a childish theme, and then back to a childish theme. And yes, Perils is childish. It’s probably designed to appeal to the “hip” millennial developers Blizzard has in charge, and those who think like them. Some would call them… man-children, so it checks out.
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I was going to give you a fair shake up until you said this.
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Because you like totally inconsistent decks with little to no decision making. And yes. The new highlander decks are exactly that.
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More people left the game during that era of Hearthstone than any other. That rotation was terrible and is considered by many to be the worst period in the game’s history.
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If I were choosing I would say JTU or MSOG.
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Yet data disagree.
There is no need to stormwind to return but this is basically the entire Henry Ford thing.
People not want modernity but it catches you anyway.
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Show the data? 20 characters
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Sure but later today.
Now i on phone.
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I know it’s a controversial opinion but I honestly dunno why. I started playing during Barrens, so that one had a strong novelty to it obviously. Then I loved questlines in stormwind and loved heroes in alterac. Also was absolutely in love with the book of mercenaries stories in solo mode. That’s when I fell in love with the game and since then the game has lost all its spark.
Every expansion after that year, and especially after year of the phoenix, started being one uninspired slop after another, seemingly representing the interests and ideas of the most vulgar american teenager imaginable.