I was being a little tongue in cheek. I haven’t even preordered. Honestly I don’t think things should be so easy they effectively aren’t even a task, and when people are up in arms about a 5 minute convenience cooldown and a mount, I have trouble taking most of them seriously. I see both issues as crying about the wrong problem.
When it comes to soar, it is still superior for getting around most of Azeroth and could easily be fixed by making it even slower in the wider world, but full speed in Dragon Isles. People would whine about this too because something was there in ALPHA and got nerfed. Oh man, imagine if tauren knew what they lost…
For the slime cat, I’m honestly amused by the level of entitlement of some of these people. Seriously boo hoo. Modern normal is about the same level as the original LFR. If you want the raid cat, go do an actual raid! The raid mount has previously been an AOTC thing anyway and now you get it from normal. That is a gift but the community is all about just looking that right in the mouth. I don’t believe the problem is LFR or not LFR anyway. The problem is how difficult it is to put a raid group together. As usual my opinion wasn’t terribly popular with the people who want minimal effort for maximum reward. The problem is not LFR
In both cases people are whining about not getting their way instead of understanding why the change is there and demanding improvements based on that vision. All this is telling Blizzard is why it was smart of them not to share early development with the community.