On the one hand, i never liked the idea of prestigious items in this game, or limited time items and the whole need to make it rare to make it special or prestigious. Not to use a trite example, but it’s akin of having an exclusive on the Playstation that nobody else will get to play. And much like that, as soon more people can get their hands on it, the pro-prestigious people go from praising it from the high heavens to basically treating it like it’s worthless trash to them because other people can have it.
On the other, microtransactions, bleh. 
Honestly, kind of a sad thing to see that all if not most MMO’s does this, even with old ones. The only MMO that isn’t microtransaction ridden is Classic WoW.
And before anybody says “Carries, boosts and gold farmers”, these aren’t what we traditionally call microtransactions in other games. So it doesn’t apply to Classic WoW here unless it’s officially sanctioned by the first party here, and it’s obvious that Blizzard doesn’t want this considering the bans to people who are gold selling, using bots, and using player created services that exchange real life money.
Meanwhile on your computer with parts possibly made from china. Hi? 
Exactly, it should be earned in-game, and not the “just get gold, go buy a wow token, open the shop–” and so on that’s not ingame, actual ingame, like put behind vendors, secerts, pvp, pve, pet battles and have them be obtainable by only playing the game, and so on. 