You are the one claiming you want original AV because it’s more fun, which will be a state that will exist long after people get gear.
Yet everytime someone suggests the option you turn around and start crying about rep gear. Seems you don’t care so much about the fun after all.
Yes and what is happening now in AV is not what happens in retail. Without reinforcements people are actually willing to try to play D and fight, as well as not just fall into a lose quickly mentality as there is always a possibility to come back from even a bad initial start.
So yes the impact reinforcements had on AV is very relevant to why you are simply wrong about how AV in classic is playing. So you either don’t know how reinforcements impacted AV and still do in retail or are simply lying to claim that classic AV is the same as retail.