You know as well as I do that I never asked for transmog or flying in Classic.
Anyone can do a simple forum search for posts written by me using the terms transmog and/or flying to see that I have always opposed them being added to Classic.
In order to be an authentic experience for CE, you’d have to pay for CE again, since you did back then. Since you haven’t, you don’t get the pet, just like someone back then who didn’t pay.
They’re not going to force you to go to Gamestop and buy the 4 CDs again either.
Ultimately, they’re probably going to either
a) Provide it as a purchased upgrade in the shop.
or
b) Not include them at all.
Either way, your previous CE purchase has no effect.
Okay will you be happy if you have to go to Walmart and buy it for 80$ just like you did in 2003? If you get if for free that wouldn’t be ‘authentic’ because in 2003 nobody would be grandfathered into getting a free pet from the previous version of the game because it didn’t exist.
If I have to, sure. Maybe you could contact each of them and link my comment though. It applies to everyone equally.
They are not recreating your specific experiences, because that is impossible. They are rebuilding the world in all its glory. Otherwise you would be specifically restricted to only creating the characters you made before, only joining the guilds you joined before, being kicked out of said guilds the same way, only allowed to enter raids on the same days as you did etc.
Your personal experience is not what they’re recreating, any more than a museum recreates the personal experience of a caveman.