WoW is supposed to look the way it does. It’s called art.
WoW was designed to run on a potato. Not everyone can afford graphics cards right now.
But they’ve made many tweaks over the years. many of them.
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The game looks perfect graphically, don’t change it please.
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When you add more realism the environment looks better, but the mobs and people look worse. Blizz needs to spend more money on story and content, not graphics.
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Yes, people do this. It is not wasted space, people go back into old content all the time!
We have most to any zone in BfA and Ardenweald exist in the game, and you think the graphics aren’t updated? I currently run WoW on 10 settings with Ray Tracing and some zones are absolutely breathtaking.
i just want the old school Azeroth trees tweaked a little bit.
Sure they could it just depends on how much effort/$ they want to put into it
Remember skyrim is running on the same engine elder scrolls 3 used just upgraded
what I hope to see blizzard do is to keep their beloved art style but re-do some of the older models to higher resolution textures, and less blocky model shapes. A better lighting engine would also help it to look a lot fresher. “wow graphics and textures concept” some people have some good ideas.
This is also why the game has aged so well graphics wise imo (along with SWTOR). You look at games like AoC, GW2 and even FFXIV and the graphics now, imo, are meh compared to when they launched. Look at New World. I think that is the most beautiful looking mmo out right now in the category of those types of graphics and destroys FFXIV, AoC, Rift, GW 2, etc. but in 5+ years maybe it will look meh too with the next mmos that may use realistic graphics.
WoW and SWTOR I think are still amazing and have only gotten better because of the cartoonish look.
That is just my thoughts though.
I would hate it.
While there are a few areas (looking at you Feralas!) that could use an update simply for visibility, updates change and homogenize the style and ambience too much for my tastes.
For instance, the difference between original Tirisfal Glade and cata Tirisfal glade is dramatic and a serious downgrade on the creepy-meter.
once everybody got a 3080+ maybe 
Graphics are not the same as stylistic art choices.
WoW looks like it does by choice, not necessarily because of limitations or inability to change