Listen, I get that some people were looking forward to the feature.
However, as Blizzard as openly stated at the beginning of TBCC, we live in a #somechanges world now, not #nochanges.
We need to be prepared to experiment with the sandbox that their data tells them will bear the most authentic “classic experience”.
Realistically, not having RDF isn’t going to be that big of a deal. I see you, people who are threatening to cancel their 4 accounts over it, but the most folks aren’t interested in WOTLK because it has RDF. They’re interested in the raids, the PvP, the class mechanics, Death Knights, the dailies, and other major elements.
RDF was a last-patch-addition that was (reality check) majorly controversial when it was implemented for a lot of the reasons Blizzard has probably decided to nix it this time around.
Imo this was always going to be the issue with progressing Classic all the way to WOTLK, we were inevitably going to suck up the niche community of players who are infamous for constantly pushing Blizz further and further down the road that it eventually becomes what retail did. The ones who create this massive stinky tirade over everything not being exactly the way they want it, instead of pushing through and playing with the tools you are given. I see people flaming Blizzard, threatening their jobs and livelihoods, and conditioning their loyalty entirely around one. single. feature that doesn’t even define what it means to experience WOTLK as a whole.
It was literally added in the ICC patch, which then went on to last an entire friggin’ year as one of the worst content droughts in the games history, so depending on your perspective, RDF barely existed for much of WOTLK’s active content rollout.
Yet WOTLK was still OK.
Honestly, at this rate, I see them launching the game without RDF just to dip their toes in the water anyway. They already announced it, so it seems silly to back out just because of some forum flaming. Maybe a few months down the line they might reconsider, but ya’ll need to relax. WOTLK doesn’t need RDF to be WOTLK. It didn’t need RDF for a vast majority of it’s patches to garner activity.