The developers had the right idea with AV 1.5. It was an epic nation state battle with the forces of Stormpike and the Frostwolf clan throwing everything they had into it. I was just in a battle where 4 horde take our base by using terrain exploits in the rear. Then 6 of them beat Van. This is not what the developers intended nor is it was the classic community wanted.
Just like Blizzard finally admitted Vanilla wow was what we wanted, please just finally admit you picked the wrong AV and put 1.5 in.