This is what I've been looking for alongside I think pretty much anyone who was there live to witness WoW vanilla, TBC and the expansions after. But its not coming back, and no MMO can get there anyway, because we've grown older, we have the experience in our pockets already and you never get a second first time. And new gamers haven't got the patience. Since WoW I've been visiting almost every MMO and spin off that came past, Tera, DDO, Allods Online, Guild Wars 2, and a dozen others. Some have their own good stuff, but none can hit the WoW vibe consistently. Ironically even WoW Legion couldn't quite do it anymore even if it came very close, but the whole challenge of it was just gone or something. Sooner rather than later you felt like the hamster in the wheel doing the rounds, rather than adventuring.
Also, the MMO has evolved beyond it, too. Even the vanilla WoW remake won't capture it proper, because we've moved on, and grinding thousands of hours for your rep or new glowy effect is just not enough anymore. We're on instant gratification drugs by now, 15-20 minute gameplay cycles and those are the same ones you find in recent MMOs. And if that is too slow for your blood, you can get boosts in the Store.
Alas. And I'm staying miles away from Amazon gaming anyway. It just can't end well, Bezos is definitely going to want to make you his money slave like everything he touches. Even on the principle alone I'm perfectly fine staying away from this POS. I'll play any Korea grinder before this, tbh. The title screen 'bug' and how they handled that spoke volumes already, the early game state confirmed it. This New World is junk. Even the name is as generic as you can get.
No content... another one of those things WoW never really got bested on. Well, maybe Guild Wars 2 right now can get close in sheer hours you can keep doing new stuff. But not even remotely as enjoyable imho, even if its impossible to say they're not trying their damn best to spice things up. Traversing the world/zones in GW2 is an actual puzzle and adventure on its own, for example, especially in the xpacs with the different mounts... and yet... its not the same