I mean in the same "breath we saw both:
as well as retail getting the very thing we had been asking for, that had all of those things that we were being told that they were glad to have removed for classic.
Smells like a duck and floats like a duck. It is pretty clear that while they may not have a hatred for one faction or the other, they certainly have ill will toward players who were coming back to the game for the vanilla experience (not those that were getting it as a gift with their existing retail sub).