Yeah the reward system has been progressively more broken since WoD. Remember when they seemed bewildered that a “shipyard” where you built ships that you couldn’t sail on or even SIT on weren’t very popular? Yeah. Here, have a dozen left sharks.
And they keep going back to game-play that is weirdly unrewarding like that. Oooo a piece of gear you can’t SEE (Heart of Azeroth) that gets more powerful in tiny increments you can’t feel out in the world. I mean . . .WTH?
I have been grinding for almost fourteen years. I did grinds in every expac. But the grinds have become less and less rewarding.
When a bunch of game developers pin their hopes on re-tooling the work of other devs from fifteen years ago, maybe it is time to hire people who actually have fun ideas of their own, you know?