Is It Just Me Or Did the Difficulty Go Nuts?

So I’ve been playing a mage since about Vanilla WoW just before BC came out and yet I have NEVER felt more squishy than getting on for the first time to play War Within. I know I’m a mage and I’m supposed to be squish but why did I never have this problem until MICROSOFT’S FIRST EXPANSION?? It can’t just be me having the problem of huge mob pulls from a much larger area than they used to pull. I can be over 200m away and pull something. It’s to the point in the game where I literally cannot complete the quest because I die every time respawn into the area. Please change things back, Microsoft? Or please put in an option to opt out of the raised difficulty?

The level / ilvl scaling has been really weird this xpack depending on when you leveled. When I was leveling 70-73 you were powerful the. I FELT i got more and more squishy from 74-77. 78 to 80 werent bad.

Its so strange to play the game and feel not gratification at all from getting stronger leveling. At least it was very very fast.