why do people want to tarnish vanilla? if you want X Y Z that is present in retail then play retail, people want vanilla/classic as it was and its because they enjoyed the majority if not all of those aspects.
my only concern is *how* they do it, in terms of where the game starts. im hoping it starts from the very beginning and then reintroducing the patches as they once did, much like in retail the new patches e.g naxx could serve as 'fresh content' to work towards again