It’s only one step away from the Eastern MMOs that have auto-pathing. It caters to a certain playerbase, and that is fine. Everyone deserves to have a game to play, that suits them. That’s why I am happy to have Classic. Nothing since Vanilla WoW has been my game, and I have tried oh, so many.
I can rattle off dozens of item names from a 15 year old game, but I cannot name a single item or piece of gear that I used from Wrath onwards. Most of the memorable items are from Vanilla, still quite a few in TBC, but after that everything merges into a bland melange of stats and ilevel.
The game really did a good job of removing all the RPG elements. I can even remember 30 items from Diablo 2, and yet I can’t name an item from Cataclysm onwards.