I've been enjoying this game since mid 4.4 so I don't entirely know how it truly was back then. I'll just go ahead and toss in my opinions though. I'm hoping this isn't the expansion where I have to call it quits. The game and the community that doesn't just resub for the next expansion feels like it's being neglected. We get less content every expansion, classes keep being dumbed down, devs still ignore feedback, the community is in that weird state of being both bad and good at the same time, balance is becoming worse, the amount of story is becoming an insurmountable wall, mediocre implementation of gearing at BiS, etc. It's all so tiresome.

I don't want to quit. I've made great friends here and have tons of fond memories laughing my way through savage and ultimate with the static. It just feels like this is following in WoW's footsteps. It didn't die overnight. It died because people were at their breaking point with the many awful decisions.