Let me clear this up for you: the people picking and choosing things to add are NOT the #nochanges crowd. They are entitled Retail players that Blizz lured in with the Boosts. They don’t want the TBC experience. They never did. And now they’re here since Shadowlands sucks, but they’re so oblivious as to why that they’re campaigning to tread the same path Retail did once before.
Abandoning #nochanges is what ruined this game, as many of us said all along. Because #somechanges will not only not please everyone, it won’t please anyone. Each individual person has their own definition of the ‘ideal TBC experience’. So no one will ever be satisfied with that approach. What Blizz could and should have done is just stick to authenticity. Unlike the ‘better’ or ‘worse’ arguments for changes, there is no argument to authenticity. That is purely objective. Blizzard has one simple response to any complaint given by the playerbase: “This is TBC. This is what you wanted.” End of discussion.
Instead now we’ve got this mutated concoction of semi-authenticity and haphazard amalgamation of seemingly inconsistent and random changes. What’s the result? Do players look happy? Are the forums a place of positivity? Of course not. It’s just the same as the Retail forum now. The floodgates are open. Players whining about this, whining about that. Saying Blizz needs to change this, remove that, add this. It was utterly obvious this would happen when Blizz opened Pandora’s Box.
So don’t blame the #nochangers. If Blizz had listened to them at least we’d have an authentic product with a clear design philosophy. But for the most part they’re gone now…back to private servers. Or playing private servers for the first time (like me) since Blizz abandoned Classic.