Blizz has been combatting bots that fuel cheaters desire for gold for 20 years. They’ve spent enough on you guys, they need a change in design philosophy.
The only way to eliminate illegal RMT Botting, and illegal gold selling to cheaters that buy gold is to eliminate the need of gold itself at the start of a Fresh/SOM2.
Reduce the cost to buy things in game, or eliminate it completely but increase the questing involved to obtain items: riding, flying, dual spec, mounts, raiding enchants, professions and unlocking secret patterns/formulas/skimatics.
For example
Make fast flying skill 50g down from 5,000g and attach a quest chain that requires 2…