Check your talents on classic.
default letter/key “N”.
Do you see any core specializations in Classic?
Or do you see 3 different talent categories?
One named Beast Mastery
One: Marksmanship
And one: Survival
Those are the talent categories I’m talking about.
IF you compare this to the game today, we not only still have such categories(albeit a lot different from back then in their layout and what’s in them).
But we also have dedicated Core Specializations. Something we got for all classes, going into Cataclysm.