- Modern API allowing far more advanced addons but also restrictions that Vanilla didn’t have.
- Modern shadows, water; grass effects.
- Modern raid frames, huge change. The Vanilla frames were absolutely garbage.
- Layering.
- Spell queuing. This wasn’t added until original TBC but Classic had it from the start. Huge, absolutely huge change. Without it, you’d have to be mashing keys as fast as possible because spells wouldn’t cast seamlessly.
- Other modern UI changes and graphical options.
- Loot trading in raids.
- Toggle for auto looting, used to have to always hold down shift to do this.
- In Vanilla, you used to have to mail things one at a time. We didn’t have that at any point in Classic.
- Battlenet integration.
- Right-click reporting feature.
- Probably more I’m missing.
- Battleground Wargames.
#NOCHANGES was a failed philosophy and virtually all of the changes they did make, despite that philosophy, were very well received and appreciated.
Before you try to claim that none of that stuff is important, you used to argue for the removal of the Modern water… because you claimed it would alter PvP gameplay.
Which of course, as I proved in those threads was a farce. Most of the old water you could see under anyways.
P.S. Forgot about battleground Wargames.