As a casual who grinded his cowhide through the classic and tbc fields of herbalism to finally make grand alchemists just before wotlk launch day. Me and many others alchemy experience has effectively been ruined and had had a large impact on our early gold making ability. I still don’t have an epic flyer and now I have to get cold flying as well. Essentially a very viable and needed profession just got slapped. Part of me thinks it might of been on purpose (but that’s modern conspiracist’s entering the brain)
any system that is giving you free end game profession crafts, is not the system Blizzard would of wanted/intended.