In WoD, when I dinged level 100 I would head to Ashran and run around for 2 hours and come out with 700 ilvl <3 Mythic HFC dropped 740 gear so that would be 94.59% of the max ilvl you could get. Of course you wouldn’t have set bonuses though. It would be about 460 ilvl in BFA.
I also complained about alts for the majority of Legion 
You can’t tell people what they need to enjoy the game 
Tis true but the gap is larger
I dunno M HFC was still pretty tough and if you came in with your 700 ilvl Ashran gear you wouldn’t do so well lol
I dunno, that Ashran gear was pretty nice