I do play the game, I still play the game because Vanilla, TBC and Wotlk were my favorite parts of wow. I wanted to play the game AS IT WAS. Not OG with #somechanges version of the game.
So what if the playerbase has changed. That’s not the point. The point is we BEGGED Blizzard for 15 years to give us the ability to play the game AS IT WAS. Not some amalgamation of what it was, AS IT WAS.
Period.
Edit:
People aren’t choosing to farm for that gold, they’re simply quitting the game. Mostly the Arena side of the game from what I can see. People want to play Arena without having an hour gold farm session attached to it every single time they need to setup the appropriate spec.
That’s not on us, the player base, that’s on them for being lazy. Farm the gold, get the respec. It’s not that hard. You are being lazy because you don’t want to farm for the gold and you want it to be just given to you so that you can change freely as needed to avoid the way the game was built.