ROFL
In Retail you don’t even have the abilities or the stances. You’re basically picking your stance when you pick your spec, and all your abilities are specific to that.
Stance dancing in Vanilla/Classic exists because we’re not locked into only one spec, stance, set of abilities.
Macros help a lot, but it is possible to stance dance manually. It’s awkward, though, and a lot of extra time making sure you get each step right, during which you’re less focused on the action happening.
Believe me, I don’t have macros set up yet, and it is a lot more painful to tank without them. If YOU personally want hard mode, don’t create the macros. Me? After last night’s tanking adventure in RFK (level 34 at the time), getting macros set up is on my to-do-soon list.