“Let” people waste time? Who hired you as arbiter of time spent on discussions?
Did we have to ask them if they had vanilla data prior to beginning to ask for vanilla back over 10 years ago when we began this journey?
Blizzard created the content we are speaking about. It was not handed down on a couple slabs of rocks to a Moses-type on a mountain. Actual Blizzard employees thought it up, made notes, had meetings, had more meetings, and carefully constructed it, tested it, and released it.
This is not the mystery of Atlantis or how the heck the pyramids were built. It is not the meaning of Stonehenge, nor finding out what actually happened in area 51. It is not something that cannot be recreated as close as orcishly possible.
Imagine all of those posts, but rather than attempting to throw shade on people, you actually discussed the great things about the early versions.