Did Yoshida went a bit too far by cloning WoW?

[Shougun]

I'm a legacy player from all the way back in 1.0 alpha days. There are many things I enjoyed about 1.x... I was one of the few who actually liked the environments and didn't agree with the hyperbolic "copy pasta" accusations. But ultimately there was a lack of content and it was a pretty ridiculous grind on top of a penalty system that reduced your XP if you were grinding too much.

I liked the look of them on a grand scale but I think hyperbolic and accusations is a bit of an intense wording, have you not seen the screen shots that show 20+ exact copy locations?

What would be considered copy pasta if not locations exactly the same within 30 seconds of each other? Just curious xD.