This game has been going downhill since vanilla
That's what a vanilla player would say
A BC player would say it has been going downhill since BC
etc
WoW is a time consuming game and it goes downhill not because of patches but because it becomes an obsession that isn't really fun after awhile. I remember how much fun it was leveling my first character on someone else's account...then leveling became a chore. Twinks let me pvp at all sorts of brackets and were my outlet to playing WoW (since high levels were a boring grind) but nowadays twinking is broken and I really don't want to go back to either feeling neutral after a win or depressed after a loss in WSG.