Please consider releasing a fresh new server that is a standalone for shadowlands.
No transfers.
No group find or raid finder
Let’s have a shadowlands classic version where people are forced to talk to one another to join groups and where a persons reputation matters
Not to bust your bubble but I’d be very sure that no one or so few people would join such a server that well… you’d never get anything done as there just wouldn’t be enough people.
I’d swap to that server in a heartbeat, the only problem is so would a lot of people and clog the server
And it will soon end up like Classic servers… leveling will be dead, swamped by boosters and one pullers. It would a stagnant mess.
Speak for yourself.
Have you leveled lately in retail? You barely ever see anyone as is.
Like any other realm?
Yet another request for a custom game.
It’s not worth their time to create custom wow versions on closed servers to serve a small number of people. Everybody has a different list of features they must have or want to never happen.
I leveled 67 characters to 120 from June till a few days ago I believe, I saw lots of other players 
I’ve leved two last week and saw almost no one anywhere. Seen maybe 2 people while doing a legion invasion, and few in BFA zones, but old zones? No.
And when it loses popularity it becomes a prison server to the few remaining people.
Some ideas are more poetic than practical
You’ve already got your hardcore island on Classic.
Besides Blizz would just skewer your server with systems that would destroy the idea of a reputable player group based experience.
You’re on Moonguard. Nobody does old content on Moonguard. Old zones are dead. Not sure why, but they definitely are on my Moonguard characters.
Join an RP server
Probably because it’s an RP realm. Those are only sharded with other RP realms and less sharded in general.
How did you level? Where did you go? I’d imagine if you followed this route
20-60 Alliance path:
Stormwind > Redridge Mountains > Duskwood > Northern Stranglethorn > Western Plaugelands > Loch Modan > Wetlands
20-60 Horde path:
Orgrimmar > Azshara > Orgrimmar > Undercity > Tirisfal Glades > Silverpine Forest > Hillsbrad Foothills > Tirisfal Glades > Western Plaguelands > Eastern Plaguelands > Northern Stranglethorn
You’d see more people since that’s the AzerothAutoPilot route.
My method is a bit unusual I think, I just do starting zones and secondary zones on party sync then switch to another character and do them again, with 67 characters and a 24 hour CD on party sync quests I could do it endlessly so I was mainly in old zones.
I was actually surprised at the number of people I saw because I figured everyone was going to wait until prepatch to level. I think when SL comes old zones will really be dead then since they aren’t optimal without flying.
Why would you want a server that would be dead on arrival, especially when Blizzard is in the process of merging already struggling servers 
Not to mention, reading this line–
You are lowkey basically asking they remove every grouping system that is hard coded into the game for a singular server because that idealized server you are seeking would require the removal of every system like LFG, LFR, Group Finder, Etc. to achieve that classic level of “socializing”.
While on one hand I do think that would be an interesting social experiment, as personally I think the game would be better without LFG/LFR, on the other hand I stand by my original statement. It would be a dead server.
Entirely disconnected from the rest of the game with no way to play with other’s not on the server even friends/guildies which kind of creates a weird anti-social aspect to it, no way to transfer on or off of it meaning people who have invested large amounts of time into the game and their character’s are less likely to move to that server, it’s a very niche request that would basically cost resources like new equipment, maintenance, separate development resources because it would have features that literally every other server has gutted and thus would also require a different mindset in terms of content on top of older systems that rely on group finder tech to be re-built.
This server would be dead from the start, and even those who do end up playing on it, which I can guarantee would not be many, would have a rough time doing much because of the low population, dead economy, and empty world thus driving more off the server until it eventually gets shut down or turned into a normal server and merged.
Huh, guess all those people in WoD content I saw last night on this Lock were all in imagination.
Forced to talk to one another?
Reputation matters?
Look, outside of my guild, the only talking that pretty much happens is “LFM X” and the only reputation that matters is knowing that some specs are memes.
After a year of playing classic wow, I know of only one person that has a bad rep and it has more to do with his choice of topic in guild chat than anything else.
True. But I’ve recently dabbled in wow retail, got my lvl 70 char I havent played in 10+ years to 120 and 420 item level gear in a week. I joined a guild and yet cant name a single person in it. I’ve done most raids and still cant name a single person I’ve met. No one talks or communicates. Its basically a single player MMO.