Lets be logical Here
You are not factoring in that WOW’s “golden era” was almost 20 years ago. It was differant playerbase due to the other games we had back then to compare it to. Games have evolved as most things do. WoW was more what people wanted back then. Now days we have the ps5 generation of gamers who have differant wants and desires.
Put simply now days games like what wow was founded on aka WoW at its Core and traditional MMOs in general are a dying breed. WoW hasnt changed much. The playebase however has