Yes. Absolutely.
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I’d say another thing they nailed in Vanilla/Era is just the importance of things like items and professions.
Pots, food, grenades, flasks, first aid… all so useful in this iteration of the game. They create a robust economy for the players to participate in and make money that is also very important.
In FFXIV and Retail, I didn’t care about professions at all. Engineering is garbage in retail and the main reason I grinded professions in FFXIV was to repair my gear at my leisure or make some housing item whenever a new one came out. That’s about it.
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Absolutely.
I’m still finding out about little trinkets and belts etc with powerful cool downs than professions can make which keep world PvP fun and interesting.
I love the BoP crafted Epics which can easily last you through Blackwing Lair
And I love for people like me who aren’t huge into professions, I can pick up something like mining/herb/skinning or do something like tailoring/enchanting, and still make gold be be part of the economy.
Quick story I can’t help but tell right now. On my server back in the day, there was a level 59 Priest who hung out in Stormwind all day and made clothes for people. He never really left town … if he did it was to stroll down to Goldshire for a while.
I asked him one day … “Why have you never hit 60?”
He said “The services I provide don’t require me to.”
I don’t know why he’s stuck in my mind for all these years, but that’s the thing. Even today, playing Classic Era or SoM etc … core memories are built because the world is alive.
I have no memories of BFA or Shadowlands … I barely remember what happened … because there’s no interactions that really connect those memory making brain cells together.
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that lvl 59 priest understood WoW better than any of us 
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Had a warrior in my guild who was still in mostly all greens heading into TBC, even though he did tons of dungeon runs with us.
I inspected him a few days before TBC was released and said “bro … why did you never get any gear?”
He said “Lol I dunno … you guys always seemed to care more so I passed on the rolls.”
Another example of someone who understood the game better than us …
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Right, we didn’t have the best setup the first time around when people were basicly not very skilled at games compared to now and still beat it /shrug. I have no issue not having perfect gear and trying something to test my skill and not gear power.
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