So then Hearthly Jnr has decided this is not for her, fair enough she gave it a good few hours but ultimately concluded it was too slow and not exciting enough for her taste.
As such me and Mrs Hearthly re-rolled as Undead on Horde and have been making our way through the levels at a steady pace together, I'm a Prot Warrior and she's a Disc Priest. Originally we were going to look for dungeon groups at the appropriate levels but decided we were having more fun just questing together so we stuck at that.
For sure the game is slow and completely lacking in the smooth, slick design of the modern game, but that's what we're enjoying about it. Stuff like having to go on a 40 minute detour to find a weapon trainer in Orgrimmar who can teach Mrs Hearthly to equip a nice staff that's just dropped for her off a mob, or me having to level up a new weapon type by missing everything for several minutes, or having to carefully choose which skills to learn from our class trainers because we can't afford everything.
Some stuff is quite janky, like quests with shit drop rates and the fact that loot isn't shared, so if we need 10 wolf fangs and only 1 in 3 wolves appear to have any fangs, it can easily take 60 wolves to get all 20 fangs, but we just get into our groove, work our way through, watch the XP bars fill up, and get better and better at working together as a team. Mrs Hearthly loves the fact that her decisions are meaningful, getting something wrong can often mean outright death, we're not indestructible gods like players are in the modern game.
Anyway, we're having fun with it, server queues haven't been an issue for a couple of weeks now, maybe a 2-3 minute wait at peak times on our server, but generally it's straight in.
Won't be for everyone I've no doubt, but considering it's basically free with a one month sub (i.e. price of entry is a tenner), maybe worth taking a look if you never played it back in the day.