Consider exploring Vanilla Plus on the server

Options that increase camraderie between Players is welcomed.

Having a single “shared” Auction House is highly beneficial when realm populations are SMALL to enable a functional peer to peer economy to function.

This is a slippery slope that is best avoided. Yes, some talent trees were Made By Morons™ at Blizzard, but tinkering with them opens up a whole can of worms that is best kept sealed.

It is “helpful” … but at the expense of being Blizz-like.
And Survival Hunter CAN be a thing … it’s just that most people “don’t know how to” (because it inverts almost everything from how MOST Hunters are understood to be played and it requires extensive macro rewriting).

To be fair, regardless of the game, once Players feel like that have “beat/won the game” the impetus to keep playing will often times diminish … usually into just Raid Logging (until even that no longer appeals).

Agreed.
“Do you want the medal, or the chest to pin it on?” :face_with_raised_eyebrow: