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Oh get off your high horse.
It came out after a number of other MMOs had been in serivce for years.
It'd be downright stupid if they couldn't make a game that didn't address most of the flaws inherent in the first generation MMOs.
Superior game design my ass. They just did what SE did when they made XI: Look at the existing MMOs and address the biggest areas that people complain about.
For XI, it was KS'ing, Looting, etc.
For WoW, it was the accessability of content.
The next major company that decides to produce a MMO would no doubt look at the current MMOs and create one without the major flaws of its predecessors.