Does anyone else feel like WoW is moving as far away from the RP in RPG as they can get?

Maybe I am just getting to the end of my WoW career or whatever and thats okay.

When I play an mmorpg I play it because it lets me escape from the real world and fully dive into this fantasy life. I feel like WoW is now more of a mmo action style game than an RPG. You just get to level cap and then run around spamming your rotation to complete quest chains and world quests and dungeons and raids and I feel like thats all there really is anymore.

Back in Vanilla it felt good to know a profession and put in the hours and hours and hours that it took to level that profession and unlock the benefits that came with it at high levels. When you saw someone with the Lionheart you knew they were a high level blacksmith. Someone with the flying carpet was a high level tailor. You knew that they put in a whole lot of time to get up there and make those items and it would give you a sense of a goal to aim for. Like if you really wanted those engineer goggles or random usable item then you knew you would have to put in the effort to get it. Same goes with fishing stuff and cooking and archeology etc...

The same goes for being a part of a guild. It seems like any guild that isnt a progression hardcore raiding guild is nothing more than having a name under yours. Every time I join a guild on any of my characters it is always like 200 people offline with the same 7 who get on most days. I remember guilds being active and chatty and having interactions with eachother outside of just raiding. People knew who the enchanters were or the inscriptionists or whatever and you knew who was awesome at PvP and who always pulled top dps in raids. Now it seems like they are all just mostly empty shells of what they used to be and people just dont even try to be active in their guild.

I actually miss the little things like hunters needing ammo and locks needing shards and having to level a weapong skill (the first time at least). Small details like these are what made the game immersive for me. It was the everyday things that you could work on or do or collect that made the game feel more alive. With the announcement of Classic coming I had a moment of interest. The nostalgia factor for me was the people and the place I was at in my life. If I try to recreate those things then it will undoubtedly just be setting myself up for disappointment. I am not longer a 15 year old who goes to school with his rogue and mage friends who would get home after school and no life the game until 2am. Just messing around not actually accomplishing anything progressive in the game. We would just hear about something neat having a chance to drop somewhere and then try to get it or hearing that you could bug out a mob somewhere and it caused it to spawn forever or you could drag some boss to a city and watch the chaos. I will never have as much time and energy as I did when I was 15 and neither will my friends. We wont all just fall back into the way things used to be when the game comes out and so the nostalgia is just that, nostalgia. It might bring back some memories but it will never be the same.

So now here I am logging into wow to try to do some catching up before the new expansion and I am trying to find the side things and professions and the details that make the game feel immersive but I am struggling. Every guild I join is empty and quiet. My professions consist of grinding out collecting the same materials over and over and making the same things over and over and over. All the quests and dungeons and raids are just go here kill this get a piece of loot that is meaningless because everything is so focused on gear score numbers. You used to get a piece of gear because it was a good piece of gear now you get it and just hope that it randomly has a bigger score number than what you have on. No more aiming for gear with maybe a little more stamina because you have a tendency to stand in fire or getting more int or regen because you kinda suck at mana management. Now it is just cookie cutter builds and copy and paste gear. World quests that come and go and come and go over and over.

I could go on and on but my point is that maybe WoW is still a great amazing RPG but maybe its just not the RPG for me anymore. Are there any games out there that still let me decide to focus on being a blacksmith and focusing my time and effort into becoming a high level one without having to work on high level "raid like" content? Do you think that WoW will ever stop trying to streamline everything and water it down? Will they ever introduce immersion creating themes or activities?

If there is any other MMOs that you think I would find more immersive please let me know.

English is my first language but I suck at organizing my thoughts.