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

[Imoye]

... WoW catered to the casuals?

What? Have you even played WoW in the last decade, TC?

WoW's story is complex. After WotLK, Blizzard went to great lengths to casualize the game and basically turned it into a queue simulator where gear was thrown at you for free. They genuinely believed they would gain more subs this way. Most classes were simplified/pruned in Cataclysm and onward. The core gameplay of pretty much every class is even today extremely boring as a result of that enormous pruning process. There is very little, if any, skill expression left in any of the classes - a chimp could smash buttons and play WoW well.

Blizzard has attempted to band-aid fix this recently by adding some of the old abilities back, but unfortunately this hasn't been enough to undo the damage they inflicted upon the game. Yes. It is true that in terms of end-game progress the WoW of today has gone in the opposite extreme and transformed itself from a casualfest to a hardcore Korean grind MMO simulator. However, the core gameplay still remains extremely easy, casual, convenient, without depth and mind-numbingly boring. This is the direct result of Blizzard not listening to their players and being unable to find a middle ground; instead the game is a mess consisting of the two polar extremes of easymode on the one hand and hardcore on the other. Neither is satisfying.

Then there's of course the garbage tier story and sub-par worldbuilding. Overall, WoW is a terrible game in its current state.