Been playing since BC, try again. If we’re going back to that, then we also have to go back to the gearing systems of the past, where gear didn’t rain from the skies and people weren’t getting heroic geared in less than a week into the tier. Why? Because back then the gear WAS the progression. Gear was your sole form of character power progression. Since gear is literally EVERYWHERE (aside from the tippy top)… they added additional routes of power progression to allow us to continue to build our characters.
Want an expansion that had gearing almost as fast as Legion/BfA, but also had zero other forms of character progression? WoD. How’d that expansion turn out?
How about we go back to BC times then… when maintaining 2 characters at BT+ levels was incredibly hard, let alone the prior poster wanting TWELVE.