End of Vanilla player here, so mostly TBC was my real first WoW experience being that I raided heavily then. and I've been subbed since way back then, and still love the game and find it fun and changing, everyones different, we all like different stuff, it's not as easy as just packaging up a certain portion of the playerbase into one little ideal.
I've always found the entire system a little unfair. Lacking as I am friends either not already playing wow, finished with wow or devoid of any desire whatsoever to try wow. Other then that the system seems to work, I think
Wrath baby and proud of it