I disagree somewhat - the WoW today is not much like it was before…most folks didn’t understand hit rating and weaponskill and downranking skills…those came over time.
I do however get your point and I think that is actually what might be leading to WoW decline - one can only eat chocolate cake for breakfast so often. WoW has become so convenient that anyone putting in any effort generally devours all the content within a single day due to the ease of gameplay - WoW cannot meet its player demand at a rate related to our achievements and now we see hard timegating manifest because…if they just let us do it…we would likely finish all the games current content in about a week (current being the stuff in the patch)