So I would like to have a discussion about this subject, because while we endlessly fight about LFG and other mundane issues we tend to forgot how WoW evolved during it’s life time period.
Currently WoW has almost 18 years, in those 18 WoW we have seen a progressively change, not only when a new expansion hits, but also during patchs. Patch after patch more content was added to this massive MMO, and slowly the feeling we once had when we initially started playing no longer exist, because after 18 years, you can’t experience the same like the game was released back in 2004 (even if you had access to old azeroth in retail).
Thus and to preserve that same nostalgic feeling when we first started our jorneys blizzard released classic (let’s ignore the private servers for this matter) because the change from Classic until Legion or BfA was massive, literally it’s like having a feeling of playing two different games.
Now, from the classic (2004), until Wrath (2008), we have 4 entire years of changes, a lot of stuff were added in the game in that time, and a few more were added until the release of Cataclysm.
So it’s safe to assume, and despite, we level in the same old azeroth in both classic and wrath, both provide different experiences, because in those 4-5 years the game changed to a point were you could queue for BGs anywhere on the map, and later in wrath you could do the same for dungeons. Raids became better, with more mechanics. Classes had more balance. We could use mounts early. More appealing quests and etc.
It’s this difference that I think blizzard isnt quite getting it yet, they want to keep the same old nostalgic classic feeling, but the same nostalgic feeling of classic and wrath is already entirely different. Many people started in wrath and the game peaked in wrath for a reason!
Back when I started playing I could queue for BGs whenever I wanted, and also dungeons (started late wrath), and that was my gaming experience, I enjoyed it, different from the previous players who started back in classic or tbc.
With this Classic wrath release, it would be the time to please the audience who played wrath back in the days and also those who started playing WoW in wrath. But in reality what is happening with this “little changes” is that blizzard is trying to keep appealing wrath for players who started back in classic thus creating a lot of controversy.
I don’t mind don’t having the LFG right at the start, since it was not in the beginning of the expansion, but I will mind if it’s not added like it was back when I first started playing.
Now this is the perfect example to bring further discussion and setting what is classic and what is not.
But to keep it simple, the “classic” feeling is that one that mimics the original as best as possible and making changes will definitely kill that feeling.
Edit: To make it short, classic and wrath classic are “two distinct” games and should be treated that way in order to keep pleasing the playerbase, not forcing classic (base game) ideals into later expansions.