I remember 8,000 being a lot.
It's sad to see the game so overinflated. The squish can't happen soon enough honestly. It's time to bring the numbers back under control, bruised egos be damned. I'd personally like to see Vanilla - MoP go no higher then 25K, TBC levels for tanks, then have the next expansion only go to 50K tops, not the jump from 25K to 80K we saw from TBC to WotLK.