I played vanilla as a little kid and almost got to 60.
If you stuck with retail after a few horrible expansion (tbc / wotlk) and kept playing for all the years, yes I will label you as a retail player.
I went to dota and pservers and only returned in 2019 when they made the game reasonable again with classic release.
Here is the thread of people raging against a very reasonable request of turning off transmog (just to the one that wants to see actual gear others are wearing) and why we shouldn’t open the door to the idea in SoD: Disable all player Transmog toggle when?