The current state of every new wow classic fresh server will not succeed unless the following happens:
Do not release raids on launch. Make the community farms 5 man dungeons and UBRS-10 man for a couple months so the 0.5 dungeon set gear is worth obtaining and that it is the best current set of gear available for players to get.
Do not release pvp gear or titles until later phases so there can be world pvp. You can release battlegrounds for fun, but no rewards like marks currency, gear, titles, etc. maybe just the pvp vendor gear that sells the pvp trinket and the cloaks and neck.
Find a fix for fly hacking and boosting needs to be figured out. classic hardcore servers was able to slow the process down and not being able to group with 60s to do dungeons was good. Maybe make level requirements on each dungeon for instance, the atlas loot addon has a level range for the dungeon. A level 60 has no reason to run Deadmines for gear upgrades. The only argument viable for a 60 to run a lower level dungeon would be for transmog gear set… go play Cataclysm is you want that option.
Please thread to this post to come up with more ideas and have Blizzard’s attention.