I don’t think I’m personally minding the lack of RDF so far. I’ve only needed to run a dungeon 3 times so far (mainly just to make up some XP before moving to the next zone). Every time I’ve been invited to a group within 5 minutes of putting myself into the new LFG tool, and I put brutally honest assessments of my poor gear in the description too.
I also was surprised somewhat. I spent some gold on dual spec, and buying some healing gear from the auction house only to find the first invite, they wanted me as DPS. I totally assumed most would want a healer.
Having said that. I just do not understand the arguments the anti-RDF people are touting. I’ve not seen one so far that actually makes sense (and that isn’t an entirely selfish motive). It really should not hurt anyone to add it.
Basically, it comes down to this. If the majority do not want it, they won’t use it and the status quo will be maintained even if it is introduced. If people DO want it, then this is holding it back from players that want the feature in order to appease the minority. Forcing players to do things a certain way because it’s what the minority want.
The “it’s a retail feature” are also just not making sense to me. The game is right now, based on the game as it was in the final patch 3.3.5. Certain items, raids and dungeons will be restricted. But abilities and user interface should be as they were then. Now, let’s not go into the fact that we have a weird combination of stuff as it was in Burning Crusade (these are bugs which they are soooo slowly fixing they might all be resolved when it’s time for cata) and stuff that is like retail (well, I’m assuming the achievement functionality is how it is on retail? It’s definitely not how it was during wrath retail). If we take the feature-set that was available in the final patch, that includes the RDF functionality. It should be there, and would still be “Wrath of the Lich King: Classic”.
If you want Original classic, there is SoM and Era servers. They do not and should never have RDF installed. They should be feature correct as per the final patch for original classic.
If you want Burning Crusade, well. I guess you’re out of luck. But if they did bring back some Burning Crusafe classic realms again it would be entirely correct to never have RDF on those servers. They again, should be feature correct for the final patch of the expansion.
But for Wrath of the Lich King. It’s really no longer your classic any more if you are so vehemently against the RDF tool. Sorry, but this is Wrath of the Lich King and I don’t really understand Blizzard’s rationale behind the hotch-potch feature set they’ve implemented.
TL;DR I think there should be RDF even though personally I’ve not had a bad experience with the LFG tool.