Quote Originally Posted by Hycinthus View Post
I don't disagree with anything OP said, but I also think it's a matter of perspective.

MMO players are a niche group already. Compared to the mobile-gamers, casual gamers, any MMO is a waste of time.

Agree that attention spans are shorter for general population, and continue to become even shorter in this era of short form videos. So yes, they will not stay long if it's not engaging immediately.
There's a difference though. Time Wasters are like... Pathfinder in WoW. Which still exists in BFA (where all new players must go through). You can't even start Pathfinder until AFTER you beat the bfa main story. Thus no flying in bfa without an immense grind for no good reason than Ion hates flying and wants to punish players for not letting him remove it after WoD.

That's what I mean by a Time Waster.