Originally Posted by
Eurhetemec
It really has, but you're not comparing like with like. You're comparing end-of-Legion, or at least mid-Legion characters with BfA ones (and I dunno if you still play or gave up ages ago). At the start of Legion, and until everyone got their artifacts up to a pretty good level, the gameplay was much worse than BfA. It's unarguably an improvement over that. The issue remains, though, the lack of artifacts and their abilities/procs. They have actually added a few more in over time (particularly as talents, ugh), but it's pretty gradual. As someone who played the beginning of both expansions heavily, it's not even a question that BfA was an improvement. But yeah, 7.3 vs 8.3, sure, Legion is ahead, but only because of artifacts and legendaries. Take them out, and it's waaaaaaay behind. So I think SL will need to continue re-adding stuff which got pushed into being artifact abilities/procs, and add new abilities.
Re: MoP/WoD, I still wonder what you specifically want to go back to - I'm not demanding an answer, but I've heard this before and it always seems a bit mysterious to me. I only played MoP a little, but I was there for most of WoD, and I don't at all remember thinking "SWEET CLASS GAMEPLAY MAN!!!" on any of my mains and their various specs (Druid, DK, Paladin). Indeed on Druid I remember thinking "Wow, these specs are borderline unplayable trash..." especially both DPS specs. YMMV of course but...