Here's a post worth reading which I found on WoW forums some time ago, and it pretty much sums up how I feel about MMO genre nowadays (unfortunately):

Yeah, this is definitely no longer the amazing game I used to play before. There's just no adventure or purpose to it, instead of structuring the game and quests as they once did, now it's all about gearing/leveling as fast as possible, consuming the content as fast as possible, and making everything as easy as possible for everyone, then using the old "Well you have HC mode if you find it too easy" excuse to shut people up.