Your thoughts on the direction of this game?

[Fendred]

We would have died before 2.1 if this was true.

Rapidly inflating item and character levels created tremendous strains on all forms of content, from leveling to raids. By the time Cataclysm was released, an attempted revamp of the old areas was completely wasted because people easily out leveled the areas before completing all the quests, so much of the content was never seen by most players. Also, all old dungeons and raids were rendered obsolete. There was literally no reason to do them. The vanity system was an attempted solution to rekindle interest in older content, which really didn't do much at all to accomplish that. You can already see it happening here. Labyrinth of ancients is becoming abandoned. The first coil will be history once 2.4 is released. By expansion all of this early content will be history if he continues to do it the World of Warcraft way. And yes, the game is losing subs. Some vertical progression is okay. Rapid upwards vertical progression is like taking shortcuts to build a skyscraper... it all comes crashing down in the end.

[Yukiko]

Also, all old dungeons and raids were rendered obsolete. There was literally no reason to do them.

Because you can not build up!
Normally you can get lets say Level 1 in lower content, 2 Level 1 you can merge to a Level 2, 2 Level 2 merg to a Level 3 and so on...
That way overpowering lower content means faster clearing which means farming more of the Level 1 instead of slower farming Level 2...

Do you see any buildup in this game? All we have is RNG everywhere!