This argument is weak, since the reason gold sinks aren’t meaningful is due to botting, which is yet another issue that should not exist in the first place.
If botting is addressed, gold sinks will become meaningful again, which in turn means one such useful goldsink taking on its proper significance: respeccing.
Less reason to grind gold = less reason to play, and in a game that’s already struggling with content replayability, this sort of dynamic ought to be the last thing to strive towards.
Convenience-related changes only lead to concatenation, into more changes, into wrath of the lich king. Convenience is what eventually brought us LFR.
I’m here to play TBC, not WoTLK. Save this stuff for then.