They changed a lot before going live.
Alchemy was only taught by the forsaken for obvious reasons, but players pointed out this would make it too onerous for other races to train.
Undead did not breathe and couldn’t drown.
Undead couldn’t be priests because the Light was painful to them.
Lots of stuff got changed prior to release for qol.
Forsaken in pre-launch were so broken. They had all of the same stats as undead mobs do. Immune to fear, immune to bleeds etc. But they were subject to all of the Paladin and Priests anti-undead tools lol.
This would have proven way too difficult, probably impossible, to ever balance so they just made Forsaken Humanoids and gave a hand waving lore reason for it and called it a day.
I mean anyone who actually plays on an HC server can see the pile of corpses in the starter zones so yes, the dangerous world of sub level 10 is a thing. Generally it’s less because people are stupid and more because they feel safe at that level/zone and don’t see the adds coming.
Only problem is after watching some hardcore death compilations, a lot of those Hunters are taking other people down with them. Seeing the Hunter pet chain the beam in Zul’Gurub and kill half the raid was just…so…Hunter.
Am I missing something? Are sub level 10 deaths not included in the published total?
I’m still seeing many daily deaths below 10. Maybe they set parameters on the report which exclude sub 10s and I missed that.
healers are really good for HC too
but nothing beats the pet class 
no, I’m sure sub 10 deaths are recorded
but nobody should be dying sub 10 on any class
the game is baby mode sub 10
there is NO excuse for ANY death sub 10
Silly, no one should be dying at all. The nature of numbers and populations would dictate that many, if not most, deaths would occur prior to 10. I’d think this may be especially true with hunters for those who have spent most or all of their WOW time playing iterations of the game besides Classic.
If I recall hunters have a pet from level 1 starting in some expansion?
i wish there was a record of the top 10 death locations, like the path from the Loch to the Wetlands harbor I have seen dozens of corps while leveling there, yes mostly lowbies trying to get from one continent to the other.