This has nothing to do with ‘the spirit of classic’, in my opinion. The opinion part is important. You asked to be corrected. Only facts can be correct or not. So I assume you thought you were stating facts. You are not. You are wrong.
But IMO the ‘spirit of classic’ is that there is a World, and that World is the main character of the game.
Reducing the impact and size of the world goes against the ‘spirit of classic.’ Reducing the value of players/characters/classes goes against the ‘spirit of classic.’
Now we are talking about ‘the spirit of classic’ like we would talk about ‘the spirit of the law’ as opposed to ‘the letter of law.’ Vanilla wow itself doesn’t hold to ‘the spirit’ on all things.
Examples would be linked AH and mailboxes. These reduce the size of the world and reduce interaction between players within that world.
So ‘the spirit of classic’ isn’t something you beat people over the head with it is just a guiding reminder to try and preserve the size, scope and danger of the world and the identity and value of players and their characters.
The ClassicLFG tool:
- does not teleport people across the world
- does not implement Cross Realms
- does not reduce content challenge
- does not reduce class identity
- does not change classic itemization
The player, their characters, their actions, and their location in game all still matter.
Having a global chat channel or slick Looking for Group Ui, might reduce the size of the world a bit. But its not drastic and it simply is an unavoidable consequence of having prevalent and easy to use communications with internet, Discord and slack etc…
Good Luck, Have Fun.