World of Warcraft died because the developers only catered to casuals and world prog

[Y2K21]

I wouldn’t say I’m hardcore by any stretch, but Legion was pretty easy to progress and keep multiple alts. I cleared every tier regularly with 3 classes normal and heroic (DH, warlock, Paladin) and had some other reasonably geared alts.

So you grinded AP between three different classes (not counting any spec swaps if any) prior to any catch-up implementation (so no AP knowledge catchup, order hall resource catch-up, not legendary tokens)?

Thats what everyone complained about from 7.0 to 7.1.5 was that AP gated alts and spec swaps.

What killed WoW for a lot of people I know was the fact that a large portion of the game was unplayable if you weren't in an active guild on horde specifically. As long as SE allows players to experience most if not all of the content without needing a static or large active FC, then they'll keep doing fine.

Bro, unless you are progging Mythic -- you can find Alliance guilds pretty well off. Server dependent of course, but thats another issue onto itself.