I have pretty much the same opinion as you and have been playing since beta, things are slowly getting better and as others have said most of the notable changed will happen in 2.0.

One thing to look forward to is player housing which will be more like LOTRO housing than a mog house, a good thing IMO, I can only hope they allow us a mog and delete our retainers lol

And yes I agree I been saying it since Beta... delete that shitty market ward and give us a proper auction house, one like WoW has.