I miss HW too.

Back then you could only raid with people on your server (and later same data center), you had to search for people and socialize in order to find a group. You also had to go to the raid entrance to queue for the duty (Savage only). Game felt more alive back then than it does now. Now most of player interactions moved outside the game (Reddit, Discord).

So I guess QoL kind of killed the game social aspects.