As a new player to WoW I found leveling in SL to be unkind; mostly due to a lack of items and the enemies scaling with me - but also I dislike bullet sponge enemies in games.
However once reaching 60 the main issue was all of the gatekeeping Blizzard designed into the game, forcing the player through a very long linear quest chain.
With DF coming I doubt theres any point talking about ways to remedy this as SL will be relegated with BfA as a poor expansion and unlikely revisted by anyone with a pulse. Any dev time will ofcourse be focused on making DF better.
