It’s not changing a project though. You want to change the project by limiting the API more than Blizzard already has.
Also, playing Classic with a LFG GUI isn’t remotely similar to retail in a very long list of ways.
If you don’t understand that the biggest differences between classic and retail can’t be changed by addons, I’m not sure what to tell you.
Class design.
Profession design.
Item design.
Pre-cata quests.
Different set of dungeons and raids.
A TON of minor differences like being dismounted if you go into water, 3 second mounting speed, 1 hour hearth cooldowns and a lack of world portals in your capital.
No enemy cast bar by default and only a clunky one you can get from addons.
You can’t even see enemy health values outside of addons that estimate it.
Very long walks back from a more limited number of graveyards.
A ton of retail features don’t exist in classic.
etc etc etc
Addons like ClassicLFG don’t make classic into retail or anywhere close to it.
There were add-ons that could play your character for you in vanilla. That’s what we’ve been talking about after some “hardcore” people decided to derail because they couldn’t defend their initial offer. People knew very well how to “reach it.” Getting back to the initial topic, the Classic team has already stated they want to avoid the detrimental LFG add-ons.
False, Ion stated in one video that they would consider breaking addons that they thought wouldn’t fit into classic.
They never broke ClassicLFG throughout the entirety of beta and have a little over a week to decide if they will or not before release.
PS: here’s an actual record of a LFG addon that existed during actual vanilla https://web.archive.org/web/20050224051516/http://www.curse-gaming.com/mod.php?addid=245
and here’s one that auto spammed chat for you for LFG/LFM
Refer to the video I posted earlier in the thread. If Blizzard doesn’t make good on what he said, Classic will absolutely be a failure to its stated goals.
No thank you, if everyone has a pvp scanner pre-installed it would ruin the game. Same with auctionhouse scanners, how do you expect me to get all my deals competing with everyone?