Actually let’s go look at their AV post.
For many parts of the game like this, we’re picking an original WoW patch that gives us the most clarity for WoW: Classic, and 1.12 is that patch.
And most importantly,
It gives us several early improvements to the BG that we’re glad to have in place. Early on in AV, there were too many NPCs and they were too hard to kill. By 1.12, many had been removed and NPC health was brought down to a reasonable level.
Key word improvements, and the one specifically noted is removing and weakening NPC’s.
So i think best is an appropriate word to use, instead of trying to pretend that they couldn’t give us an earlier version.