You can't compare this game against Vanilla WoW. You must compare it to MoP.

It is the most idiotic thing to tell people that you should compare a releasing MMO to an old standard of content density. The released MMO must compete in content and polish with current running MMO's.

That's why most MMO's have failed, because they thought they could excuse having less content/polish than WoW because they had just released, and while they had sizable box sales their subscriptions plummeted due to the lack of real content.

If Apple releases a mac with inferior functionality to the more modern Windows PC, with the promise that at some point they'll catch up to the current standards of the cutting edge Windows PC, Apple would be bankrupt.