This is very true, however in wrath and beyond they took that to a whole new level.
So you didnt even make it to level 20 but you have a good understanding of what leveling is like.
Everything below mythic dungeons and heroic raids in retail is even more brain dead then the classic 1.12 nerfed dungeons were doing.
I wouldnt say avoiding retail… just no desire to try it since i quit in BC. The whole game redesign and progression reset of BC kind of fortold that would happen every expansion which, from what ive heard, it has. Why play a MMORPG that gets redesigned and reset every year or so.
Not for me. Classes are too homogenized in retail. And any content before mythic dungeons and heroic raids is so easy my 4 year old cousin can do it.
I would play it 100000% strictly because of world pvp.