Ahh, the art of pulling stuff out of one’s dark orifices.
BFA didn’t contribute any more or less to the need and desire for them to rework the AH. They just never applied serious development effort to it till then.
The AH, as in classic and TBC, has ALWAYS been a cluster you know what.
An AH add on completely solves the issue of people posting hundreds of single items at low bids with high buyouts since you can actually sort by lowest buyout.
Are people actually using the AH without an add on right now? If so do you not have bartender, weak auras, DBM, bagnon, elvui, or any other add ons?
Wow has always had quality of life add ons. Go get TSM and watch your AH issues disappear.
It’s the issue of the AH being laggy as hell and blizzard knows it is, sure the single items are probably part of the lag problem, but it’s the sheer volume of items on the ah, far more than it was designed for back in 2004