Can't speak for all emu's but the Rebirth is very accurate about stuff like that... it'll be little things that Vanilla did that the emu's don't get quite right like event scripting or some esoteric bug that existed in vanilla. Pathing is kinda dodgy because the server software is not the same. But generally it does feel very much like vanilla.
I'd still take that over what we have now, and I say this as a fairly shitty casual. There is this middle ground where the game is casual friendly but doesn't reward people for taking a shit in a public restroom and only getting 50% of it all over the seat, walls, and floor.
I agree but the time investment to get anything done in vanilla starts at about 2 hours, and goes up. I can't sit down and game for 4 hours at a time anymore.
The saddest truth.
It'd just be current classes/content level-capped at 60. The lazy is strong. See Mission Tables 3.0. The real reason they doubled the size of their WoW team was so that they'd have enough people to field two soccer teams during work hours.
You may not have been playing that way, but trust me, min maxing definitely existed in vanilla. I had the first decent spreadsheet on EJ for warriors. Shaming all the other DPS while not getting yourself killed from over aggro is part of the nostalgia for me. I'd definitely consider playing vanilla(likely TBC...MAYBE wrath) again if I had the time and didn't have to deal with all the negatives associated with organizing 40 people to raid.
yrp .. I was apart of a Rogue Core that would consistently fight for top DPS spot in AQ.. then there was the crazy dual welding warrior that would break up the yellow bars in the top 5 or six..
