For my part, the issue with post-Velious content was that it made the world smaller. Right now, unless you are a wizard or druid, you can't jump across the continents and back without help. The current server population are friendly enough that you can usually get a port for a corpse-run and maybe even a rez if you are lucky, but a trip from Freeport to Qeynos is an adventure for me. Getting a port is a special treat or a necessary evil, not something I do regularly.
With SoL, Luclin suddenly became a transit hub and I can't imagine anyone ever needing to grab a port when you can just use Luclin. PoP was even worse; the PoK made even the run from Crushbone to Kaladim (with belts) redundant because you could teleport.
Were the newbie-armour quests kind of nice? Of course. Would I mind seeing beastlords? Not at all. Do I miss Vah-Shir? Yes. Is the Bazaar better than EC? Maybe, maybe not. Are those things worth the loss of the classic feeling? No, not to me...
As people have said, there are other servers who go beyond Velious or have variant rules like accelerated exp or higher drop rates. I mean, there's even Shards of Dalaya which is not even EQ as we know it. I play P1999 because I was happy in the SoV era and P1999 helps me recapture that era.
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