You ignore the fact that that particular blue explicitly stated that when he used the term “we” (which he did in those posts), he was speaking for the Wow team and from personal opinion.
You can see that if you go back and read those posts. Since I know you won’t, here are some of them:
“We” as in Blizzard developers? Or “We” as in the Activision-Blizzard accountants responsible for making financially viable decisions?
I speak for World of Warcraft. When I saw “we” I mean the WoW team.
Refer to my post above- I really would play Classic, for years, if there was a guaranteed way to get the Black Scarab mount as an end goal. I wouldn’t be able to play BfA for years, nor would I want to.
I would imagine you could earn that in Classic. It would stay in Classic though given what we’ve stated already about it.
This is something interesting but nothing decided or concrete on it.
I would try to seperate in your mind retail and classic. Something you buy on retail shouldn’t give you something in Classic, or vice versa. The philosophy is pretty rock solid that they are separate gameplay wise. If you obtained the original CE pets you used those/can still use those in the live game you obtained it for.
Assume Retail and Classic are two separate games entirely (apart from the sub granting access to both) unless we announce otherwise.