This is the reason I dislike transmogs. If everyone has a similar fashion statement, it loses charm. It's a blast to walk through Tauren Druids in WOW Classic TBC Gold full mooncloth. It's funny, however, it's also a smart idea.

Standardizing stat allocations (partly because of better class design and understanding of what the characters would like) has reduced the capacity of stat design to create memorable items. Today, the most memorable items we talk about products that are memorable because of things that do not fall within the system of budgeting for stats: procs, abilities that can be used on the fly, the high-budget exceptions (War Glaives) as well as honorable mentions of weapon speed which still allows them to create things that are superior to others without being budgeted.

Half of the vanilla class did not have level gear because it was inadequately itemized or wasn't compatible with their specs (feral DPS warrior, druid and others). Tbc all tier gear in vanilla is at least acceptable, and sometimes even better. Overall I think there's more waiting for decent gear to be prepared.

In MC, for instance, there's about five upgrades available for buy WOW TBC Classic Gold the wild tank, and certain of them were highly desired (accuria and the agi-cloak off rag). Tier gear was useless other to a few items being relevant for a fire resist tank set. Other parts, like the massive dark iron ring and shoulders for fireguards, were eliminated. The set wasn't particularly exciting.