Hey bud! Myself, and quite a few of my core are very similar to you. We kinda lost interest as Cata started to change the game. Some of us came back for a few months here and there to check things out but haven’t been serious in retail for quite some time.
For a while we did a lot of “private server” stuff, and some are in top US guilds for Classic. Though with the changes to Shadowlands, we see the game starting to make a turn in the right direction.
We are currently spending most of our time prepping our accounts for Shadowlands, trying out and researching different choices for our mains, as well doing Mythic+ a bit to fill the time.
Our raid times are about an hour later than your posted, but if that isn’t a huge deal breaker, I linked our recruitment thread below for you to check out. If it seems like a good fit, feel free to hit me up, and we can move from there.