It makes it more fun you you maybe. I came back to classic to get away from the the QoL changes. I like having opportunity costs in a game. It’s what makes it feel like an rpg. Please stop trying to change the game I enjoy to be something it isn’t. If your not enjoying it maybe you should find a different game.
And it 100% is a gold sink. Do you know the definition of a gold sink in terms of video games? You also know there are people that respec multiple times a day right? Let’s assume one person is respecting twice a day, that’s 700g out of the economy per week. And respecting twice a day isn’t even hard to afford. Yet you want to say respec costs isn’t a massive gold sink? Even if only 1% of players change spec twice per day, assuming a realm size of 5000 (not a tiny realm but not huge) that’s 50 people doing this on a realm. 50X700=35,000g out of the economy per week. That’s not a small amount.