Just because you weren’t around for the two+ years of the WoD no flying debacle… doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, and it wasn’t serious enough for them to lose a record number of subs in 19 days, that they had to issue an apology, reverse their, “no more flying in future content ever” policy, and come up with the overly punitive Pathfinder halfway through the worst expansion we’ve ever had.
They used to release sub numbers for WoW every quarter until that happened.