You mean the “evidence” from private servers that admittedly made it harder (hey guess what, those are changes) and were summarily debunked by Blizzard as not being bugs?
Other than legit bugs I have yet to see any evidence of note from the whiners that it’s anything other than legit based on Blizzard’s actual reference client.
The fact 1.12 changed things? I don’t get what you mean since 1.12 is the same version private servers were running. Or are you saying there’s later changes in the client that shouldn’t be there?
This is what I think too, we have better internet, better servers and knowledge and experience related to this old content. Even if they buffed the content beyond the original wow experience, players from today will find ways to beat the content faster then the people 15 years ago were able to do. I am re-living the experience as it was.
I just went through all patch notes from every patch between 1.5 (which was around the time of the first Rag kill) to 1.12 … I didn’t find a single patch note mentioning any nerf to all PvE difficulty.
The only change of note was the increase in the debuff limit from 8 to 16, which came with 1.7 in September, 2005 … approximately 16 months before the release of TBC
Yet the lauded private servers used 1.12 too (albeit they increased the difficulty,) and there were seemingly no issues there, AND those had the better itemization which Classic doesn’t have yet. So basically, no changes was a bunch of crap since no changes were based on a version of the game that had changes.