Like you said, compare this game to wow, vanilla wow, and then try and pretend you arnt talking straight out of your ass.
I have accepted in every post that some innocents were caught, and in my opinion its a price worth paying to see such early and constructive efforts to eliminate a real problem in the game.
You can bet they are scrambling to find solutions to chat spamming but are trying to find the right balance. Something that took wow....oh right they never actually got that properly fixed until 5 years after it was released. hmm sure looks like the bottom has fallen out below your nonsense.
And I said multiple times, its not just my experience, if you had spent any time at all on the wow forums you would know exactly what I was saying here and would realize I was representing thousands upon thousands of posts made by different people all telling the same story.
You do not know what you are talking about here, you made a claim you cannot possibly hope to back up by your own admission, the evidence you present is "some guy that worked at blizzard" told you so it must be true is not evidence, its in fact a complete lack of evidence.
Square are doing a far better job the blizzard EVER did with vannila wow. Or tbc, Or wotlk. Because believe me the problems we see here were multiplied ten fold in wow and it took far far longer for any fix to be introduced, and nine times out of ten it failed and fixes were then patched and fixed, which were then later patched and fixed until they had to build a whole new freaking engine.
Missed a part of your post, how little changes could be made to fix this or that, you a techie should know these two things
1) prioritising fixes, the most game breaking problems are tackled first, minor cosmetic issues like chat system spam is not a major issue to a developer and certainly isnt game breaking.
2) making a small change, however minor can cause massive unforseable conflicts in complex computer programs, hell even in small ones, it takes time to make changes that work and dont break two other things which then need to be fixed.
The fact you ignore this and are complaining they arnt making more changes to the algorithm when the change they made has already caused, in many peoples heres words, a minority of innocent players to be banned is ridiculous and you should really know better than to make such frivolous and casual remarks that completely throw all accepted programming practice out of the window.