Woah, what the heck? I remember him being Hostile as well and constantly watching the roads careful not to agro him.
Looking into it, the stuff I am finding shows him as Hostile.
Well, this video was uploaded Feb 2007 and TBC came out Jan 2007. This video shows him as hostile.
Also it should be noted that his Wowwiki page only mentions him being changed in WotLK (nerfed) and Cata IE the Revamp of the world.
Another old video I found from Vanilla I can’t really make heads or tails of because it starts with him already agroed and the person is using a heavily edited UI.
As far as I know Stitches IS suppose to be hostile and evidence points towards that. If he was Neutral at some point I feel there would be documentation of it. I will keep searching for vanilla videos.
UPDATE: Yeah, found two old comments, one from 2005 and one from 2006, that also elude to him being hostile on Wowhead that was imported from Thottbot. I will post a link to the comments as well as an image because I know not everyone is a huge fan of Wowhead(I think its blown out of proportion but thats just me)
I am assuming this is either a bug -or- for testing purposes… for… some reason? He certainly should be hostile though from what I am seeing.
EDIT: One more thing, petitions are a no-no. Just saying, they are pretty frowned upon on the forums and touched up on in the “Welcome Please Read” post you can find in the General Discussion Forums, which honestly should be put in the Classic Discussion Forums as well for reference considering this is basically Classic General Discussion.