Honestly, I still want Blizzard to fix broken realms on Retail. I left good friends behind when I switched to classic and they still struggle to pull 20 raiders together for Mythic each week. Let alone raiders who can keep up.
Also war mode is Alliance dominated unless I join a US shard where it’s then Horde dominated but with lag. Neither is good fun.
Your exact words were no competition. Your post just proves otherwise.
By the way, just because they are all mmorpgs dosent mean they use the same pricing or business model.
Subs mean nothing if that is not your main source of revenue.
I think you fail to interpret that Classic is nothing more than something to bridge the gap between now and Shadowlands. They will release content based off their best bet of keeping the highest subs and end up with the most Shadowlands expansion sells.