How is that better than just pressing C to look at your character and the STATS PANEL (what it should be for, but they just remove the data for unknown reasons).
Why does it matter if it's there or not? If you don't care about it just don't look at it? But people that do care about it can't look at it, because it's not there anymore.
Why not make it so that there is an option to hide it and make that default? That way both sides get what they want.
If WoW continues on this path gear will start to look like this...:
Because why bother putting the exact stats on it? "Just datamine it and look it up in a database" or "It's not that important anyway"
Simplifying does not make it easier to understand because you don't know the values.
"Slightly" can mean anything.... 1%? 10%? 5%?
What else are they going to change? Tooltip from heals? Potions? Flasks? Food?
How is that useful information? Dumbing down the game isn't a good thing... the whole game is about numbers (levels, hp, mana, dps, hps, ilvl, stats like haste/crit etc etc) and getting stronger (a sense of progression) and if you remove that you might as well remove all the numbers. Just make everything into bars (health/mana bar) without numbers, max level is 1 because why not? Give all the skills right away since you only have 4 skills left now (and levels are just a number so they removed that too). Gear doesn't show stats either, only ilvl and higher is always better (except that it isn't, just like now in-game).
I for one like complexity since it adds depth to the game, you have to figure out what's best and there is almost always a way to better your character. If they dumb down everything and straight up remove stuff they might as well take the game offline. It's an MMORPG after all.