I’ve also said on other threads (and in here somewhere, I thought) that if we were changing the systems for betterment, sure, there’s other options. But they weren’t removed until the Honor system was removed, and that was not in Vanilla. A historical recreation isn’t trying to rewrite history to be nicer or better. Blizzard doesn’t want to make a second stream of WoW despite the number of Classic+ posts being made.
Maybe they’ll change their mind after Classic is very popular, but in doing so they’ll make a third game, not change the locked in stone (after CP6) 1.12 recreation.