What’s with Retail players and an incessant obsession with gear. Some people just want to continue the story of Warcraft 3 to see what happened with Illidan and Arthas. That is why WoTLK makes total sense as an Era realm.
Retail players and Classic players have completely different ways of thinking. Retail players are all like “omg what ilvl r u wut gs r u, omg so cool”, Classic players are like “yeah we play to have fun not to measure our epeens”.