To be fair… considering most of it happened during the pandemic when lots of people were on lockdown it honestly wasnt that bad this time lol. And with modern technology and discords allowing people to coordinate honor stacking it was way more efficient than it was in 2006. I actually had a pretty good time ranking for the most part… The decay was brutal if you ever had to take a week off though…
So you have no real point then. Ok we have established that some want the random finder and some don’t. And there is multiple reasons, most of which are anecdotal for wanting it or not wanting it.
Your point about a horde party having to skip stocks or by association an alliance party having to skip ragefire because of the difficulties involved is moot imo. There’s quests out in the world to do at those level brackets. An alliance character for example can reach level 10 or 11 by doing all the quests in elwynn forest.
If the game was only dungeons not being able to run one because of having to go into the enemy factions city would be problematic. Thankfully dungeons are only a part of the game.
Really hope that now he’s gone that we’ll get RDF. He seems like he was the guy holding it up since I remember in an interview with Aggrend iirc that the team was 50/50 on it.
But the idea that the “world is alive” outside of the early expansion rush to max level is stupid and hasn’t been true at any point I’ve played up till and including Cataclysm.
If the world being alive was the intent these fools would be arguing for the quest system in retail.