Nobody has said that but you. What i was referring to when i said that is people opting out of the event thinks that’s infringing on their fun.
Also, fun is subjective. Just a fun fact for you. 
…I’l take that as a no, you’re not self aware that you’re doing the same thing as you claimed other people are doing… 
I pointed this out because you were making your grandiose speech about history and making yourself look superior while unironicaly whining about this (regardless if it’s correct or not, it’s the principle of the matter; you being hypocritical in how you’re going about this).
Plus, the history back then is not all that different from today, considering WoW’s audience comprising a bunch of Nerds. And there were people who throw tantrums back in the past to where even Blizzard had to nerf or fix things. I’m fascinated on how that plague bug back in Vanilla has escaped you on the middle details and end.
You want to talk about history? Back in my day, games were often complete packages and not filled to the brim with MTX to the endth degree.
…You’re paying $15 just to be on the forums when you could’ve been playing your favorite game and for free no less?..
…You don’t care about it so much, you paid money to a game you don’t care about, just to comment on the forums about a topic of either the games you don’t care about. You don’t care so much, that your recent comment was on one of the topics about Classic WoW killing Retail WoW… 
You know, i would bring up much more better uses of spending your money, but i guess if one unironically buys magic spells from Esty, then who am i to question an your financial independence here. 
…Oh no, i agree that pre-order bonuses are poo-poo. I just don’t see how this ties into Zombie event, unless you’re referring to what i’ve assumed of OP: consistency.
Tokens i would imagine, they would always implement those in the Chinese version of Classic. (at least the last time i’ve heard, correct me if i’m wrong on that)
But Attunement skips are a new one, i’ve literally never heard of that being a possibility for shops in Classic.
…Wasn’t the Paid Character transfer in Vanilla? Yes, not in a shop icon, but it was debuted in 2006.