No way lol, this game is nothing like Vanilla. The current developers just don’t have any idea what made Vanilla WoW fun. You are confusing a few Vanilla like changes with an expansion that just stinks to it’s core, just like BFA did. The modern developers don’t know what they are doing anymore with this game.
Edit: They merely borrowed a few ideas from Vanilla, but that isn’t what is making the expansion suck. SL is the culmination of years of bad ideas.