Same here! I’m Fifty-One now and my reflexes are crap and my ability to process multiple things really fast is gone. So now I run dungeons, work on crafting, complete quest lines. All the stuff I found boring before has now turned out to be fun and relaxing and I still get to enjoy the game.
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I felt this in my thumbs… 
dang, hadnt posted here in so long i was still on my classic character… Here is my main… and when i say all we did was raid its easy enough to check all my old achievements… Good luck to you that still push the envelope. More power to ya.
I got better at all games with age.
My game preferences changed over the foaming mouth obnoxio’s in group content.
I loved running 5 mans all day in Legion. BFA that changed. The players got nastier. The vote kick was coming up even multiple times per dungeon too often.
Hell, even the prepatch Uldaman dungeon I saw the kick come up twice to kick tanks for no good reason with some foul mouthed reason.
I play this game to enjoy myself…not be grouped with mouthy teens and disgruntled 40 year olds.
Im mostly solo casual now.
I retired 5 years ago, and my son got me hooked on the game. I’ve been playing for 4 years now but I’m not real good at it. I just do what I consider to be fun in the game and I enjoy it.
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Interesting topic. Our civilization hasn’t really had experience with becoming aged as a serious gamer. Reaction time falling off in even just your late 30s is mind blowing. I wonder if that’s the case tho – the game’s mechanics have become more involved than it was in vanilla. And it seems no one recognized that until classic came out and it was a PvE breeze.
That said, I mainly pvp honor ranked in vanilla, then quit the game until classic, and then just started playing retail again. There’s not much to grind in pvp anymore, otherwise I would be doing that again. So I’m trying to become better at dungeons. I haven’t done a mythic yet, even tho I’m ilvl 361. I don’t want to be the one to hold everyone back. But maybe it will be a walk in the park and I’m over thinking it. I’ve also gotten into professions more. I always love collecting herbs, and still do that. Alchemy is fun too.
I’ve just realized this is a mostly pointless post. But I’m going to post it anyway. Sorry, if you read through it 
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When I first started my journey back on November 24th, 2004, wow was my first MMO and my play style was more raid and go hard at completing things. Now that I am forty-four with three teen age boys my play style is more just finding things to do and be happy.
To be honest I was a Giant Butthole and had issues with anger if things didn’t go how I felt they should. I learned over time that playing a game demanding that things be perfect from other players wasn’t healthy for me and I took a step back and just decided to take things on a much more casual basis.
Less time out from Moderation and a much happier me in the end.
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My play style didn’t change so much as my choice of game.
For almost a decade, WoW was the ONLY game I played, then WoW made some changes that caused me to break my habit (which opened up whole new worlds for me).
These days, I consider WoW more of “getaway” game that I mainly play as a break from other games. I do play it a bit differently now because I am not subbed for very long… but in other games I am still basically the same.
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Mechanically I still play the same as I did in my prime 10 years ago, but my content preference has changed a lot. I know straight up I can’t commit time to top guilds anymore and by extension raid at a top level, so I just don’t do em’ at all. I’ve even become cynical about it because of my disposition. Same with things like speedrunning. I just have zero taste for it because there’s no upper boundary to the skill I know I can’t commit to time-wise.
So basically, I’m a top tier key presser stuck in a 36 year old body with too many other obligations, and my jealousy about it makes me less than fun to group with sometimes.
For sure. What 24-year-old me wanted out of a game in 2006 is not the same as what 40-year-old me wants in 2022.
Similar story. I was around 30 when WoW first launched. Formed a guild and led it through Cata (disbanded mid Cata). Raided and PvPed 4 to 8 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Now…almost 50. Still PvP, rarely raid. Play almost exclusively with my partner doing transmog runs, leveling alts, fishing, battlegrounds, etc.
oh ive for sure slowed down.
when I was younger I did some much pre-raid prep
now I just take it easy before raid