Well, if you want to believe standardized testing results that are really old by now, I was in the 99th percentile on reading comprehension back then.
But then, I’m just some some random guy on the internet posting on a female avatar who could be blowing smoke.
Although I’ll admit to possibly getting a little too practiced at “reading between the lines” over the years since then. Being fluent in parsing Bureaucrat, “Diplomat” and a lot of Tech Jargon as well sometimes isn’t a blessing.
I agree we’re probably using different definitions here. I’m also likely to be using a far more exacting measure for it than you seem to be.
It started in TBC, but most people didn’t notice it happening until Cataclysm. Just because many/most failed to notice didn’t mean it wasn’t happening.
But hey my reading comprehension has a history of sucking:
And then we discover in May that the Pets were carrying over. Huh. I guess I really missed the boat on correctly parsing Blizzard. Reading comprehension is hard.