Yeah, that shouldn’t be a thing and Blizzard should change it. The best time was years ago, the second best time is right now. Tie more rewards to the seasonal achievements for raiding, just like how PvP and M+ do it. Make the titles tied to the seasonal prestige achievements less lame. We don’t need a 45th Famed Slayer or Adjective Hero, we need more Banes of the Fallen King, Dragonslayers, Ironbanes.
Should’ve been completely season-specific like the Elite sets, and allowing hero track to unlock the appearances is honestly kind of insulting. Them caving on that after finally getting rid of it again in Midnight was very disappointing. The myth ones should also be model changes again like in WoD, separate ones for M+, raid and PvP instead of only recolors.
I just don’t agree. Recognizing people for having done a thing at a certain point in time has value. Giving them a cool cosmetic to show off “I was there, I did a thing” is good. Keep adding more of that kind of thing so people have things to show off regardless of which season they played in, don’t devalue the existing ones by returning them.
It doesn’t have to be CE or HoF or Elite or Gladiator, it can be something as easy as The Deaths of Chromie or the various prepatch events. Having things that visually represent a specific point in time is good. Achievement dates are meaningless, it has to be a title/mount/pet/toy/transmog (ideally cloak/head/shoulders/weapon because those are most visible)
WoW is a very old game, recognizing that with in-game cosmetics is cool.