They just made it simpler as time goes on. The only problem of azerite was that at 8.0, drop was random from chest. No vendor.
So again, you played just one month, so we have nothing to talk about. I played entirety of BfA and basically only first patch was wonky.
Still faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar away from extreme issues of SL at launch. Which people predicted long time ago. M+ dead, content unrewarding, loot drops more rng than has ever been without any way to counter it. No new content aside from torghast which didn't turn out to be saving grace. EXTREME timegating.
I honestly prefered islands to the current torghast.
I will probably skip this patch entirely.