Ignore that foolishness and move on, that’s it. If they really want to play they will. Going to add, it was an only handful of people, it’s not like there was a big movement for that.
Nothing has been proven at all. You are making comparisons to an expansion, while we are asking for vanilla. There hasn’t been a new vanilla server (fresh) launched since the original. You don’t have that data, and comparing it to fresh wrath is meaningless imo.