Then you’ve chosen to simply endure it then. Good for you. Not many can.
I wish they made raids non instanced and the more people you brought in the more powerful the boss and then my guild came in and killed the raiders and reset the boss because raids are gd boring and killed WoW. The end.
Nope classic is what is and always will be.
OP you ask a loaded question that is inconsistent with title.
The give away is when you mentioned “near end content”.
Overall, leveling is harder than it used to be, especially by 1.12 standards. Dungeons and Raids are a mixed bag. No matter what anyone says, MC should not have been cleared so soon, especially the way it was. By 1.12 players had mastered MC and it was never that easy. On the flip side, DM has been set to an almost non solo able ridge which is also not entirely 1.12 authentic.
It shows to me that content will get harder as Classic WoW progresses, perhaps to a stage where by the time we get to Naxx it will likely be a lot harder than it originally was…not impossible, but a lot harder.
Based on MC, which most of us have yet to enter let alone clear with or without drops, you make a compelling query. However, it is best to wait and see.
Without a layer to abuse, I will be surprised if content is cleared much faster than it originally was. Maybe a week or two faster because of the overall knowledge creep, but not much faster. To suggest players will clear content several weeks or months faster means that you believe players were complete idiots back then. Therefore the entire question is loaded.
my opinion’s the same as prior to release
they should have either done progressive release 1.1->1.12, or just released 1.12 full. blizz laughing all the way to the bank when the players demanded even more phases