What was the main thing that made WoW not be really social anymore?

[Kholin-drakthul (Kholin)]

Gonna throw this link in to the chat. It is a post I made a while back about this same question.

Is WoW out of touch with it's core audience?

My SUBJECTIVE opinion… WoD was the casual guild killer. (In the social circles/guilds I was part of at the time.) It erased entire guilds full of casual people that worked on professions, worked on old achieves, traded stuff among their friends and did group stuff that wasn’t cutting edge content. It pretty much drove the social glue people out of WoW. What need was there to mine/herb when there was no one to buy it? Everything was in your solo play garrison and everything your friends n…