And yet when we were playing Vanilla all those years ago we were begging for QoL changes, such as dual-spec, better flight pathing, baby-sitting your character while you are on shitty flight paths did not immerse shit. Calling yourself a "purist" because you want to get a badge of honor for 'surviving' a run in with vanilla, seems a little much. The game play back then was slower, simpler, if they copy and paste.. It will have a decent enough shelf life, but I imagine there will be population issues if it's too pure.
Even drug lords know you gotta cut the product, going completely pure won't help keep the vanilla servers with a healthy population in the end. This isn't me endorsing LFG either, SOME QoL changes make sense, the ones that don't harm the social aspects of the game. Hell, I wish proving grounds existed in Vanilla, would have saved me from doing dungeons with a bunch of duds. Nothing is worse than running a 40 man raid with only about 20 people who aren't jackoffs.
Kind of excited to kill C'thun and do Naxx 40, missed out on that the first time around.