Anyone who suggests doing retail bgs for pvp clearly hasn’t played retail in a while…
The queu times are as bad for horde on retail, because Faction Xfers just encouraged every single actual pvper to faction stack. With an added bonus of alliance losing 80%+ of bgs unless they get a premade of Horde Mercs to carry them.
Furthermore, when you do finally get a game, 3/4 of your group will be infested with Azralon/Ragnaros non english speaking trash and basically no one does any objectives in any games because they’re all timered to end regardless.
You get to deal with all of this on top of every single patch tier making the entirety of your gear obsolete again and having the same exact things over and over hoping to re-acquire the same gear you already had with an updated ilvl, and the fact that the game is so simplified and homogenized that the classes themselves, and the combat they engage in is boring.
The current Classic Queus are an unfortunate problem (and where entirely preventable), but the underlying game is -MASSIVELY- superior to the current retail trash design wise.