With all the fuss and discussion about a better expansion, I'd like to point out several objectives that the developers have fully failed to address:
- Battleground designs (AV Horde favored map design, WSG terrain exploits and safe spots)
- Botting that's so rampant and blatant people don't bother reporting anymore
- Gathering node quantities in relation to server populations
- Server populations in general (dozens of completely dead and single-faction servers)
- Staging of phases and events (Naxxramas timing, scourge invasions not ending, world event timings)
These things used to be addressed with a dialogue between the player base and developers. This tradition that made WoW successful in the first place is gone now. Irrational changes to the drums are another fine example of chaotic development of a product the developers have lost their interest in.
Don't get your hopes up for TBC. The Classic "developers" have proven to be completely ignorant to community feedback and utterly clueless to what's going on in game.