At which point the question becomes to what length you harm legitimate users in order to curtail RMT. Blizzard could stop all RMT tomorrow by removing all player trading from the game, but I think we all agree that would be excessive. So - has the impact to RMT been sufficient to outweigh the harm to legitimate users?
That is literally not what they said.
… which is a problematic statement. You can’t force players to play like they did 20 years ago. GDKPs actually did exist in Vanilla but nowhere near to the same extent because end-game content could not be consistently PuG’d, whereas it can be now.
How does Loot Council and DKP fit into a casual PuG Raid environment that never existed in 2005? SR/HR definitely weren’t promiment back then, either, when tracking such would require somebody to use an excel spreadsheet but now is streamlined via a 3rd party app. Should we ban SR/HR, too, in the name of preserving traditional social structures? And force all PuGs to use the in-built Need Before Greed system?