Every feature you mentioned as “default” or “baseline” also took money and weren’t necessary. No one has to treat your assertion that letting us lock our toons to either Classic or TBC as a baseline seriously. At all. That was a request, Blizzard gave us that request, and you’re here acting like they always were so the cost doesn’t count.
If xmog were included would you suddenly act like that wasn’t extra cost, but just baseline?
You really need to work better on your trolling and/or logic.
Any feature would have a return on investment you absolute spoon.
[Citation Needed]
Or is this the part where you claim certainty of your opinion while absolute doubt is all anyone else is given?
…if they’ve earned that gear. I don’t get why people make this claim as if random leveling alts are going to be rocking the Cursed Visage of Sargeras while killing boars in Redridge.
You can’t make a cool matching set of Crystalforge gear on a Paladin unless you actually earn that gear.
Would you really be affronted if you saw someone right now on Classic run by with full Shadowcraft gear mogged? Does it hurt your pride to see someone in 8/8 Tier 0? Would you be skeptical of someone in full T3 since the only way you can get those pieces is to have a class at 60, in Naxx, get the token and complete the quest?
/headdesk
Not really no. They weren’t added until the final patch of Cataclysm, so they weren’t even a known or coming feature. When Dragon Soul dropped and they announced Transmogrification along with it, it was without a whole lot of fanfare but was very surprising and welcome nonetheless.
It wasn’t an expansion feature the way the barbershop was (explicitly pointed out for Wrath) or Death Knights/Monks, etc.
It is a feature the same way in-game voice chat is a feature, which is to say something that was added in a mid-progression patch but not a key point or even a noted selling point of any actual expansion.