First they changed the entire way AV works, by removing all elites and reducing the time it takes for towers/bunkers to burn once assaulted, implemented resources in 2.3.0, and made it so players don’t resurrect in the starting caves until all of their faction’s graveyards have been captured.
As well as other things, some of which are in Classic’s AV already.
Then in patch 2.4.0 they moved the Horde cave further south, because it wasn’t about the PvP in this AV. It was about the resources , and distance to towers/bunkers actually mattered then when there were no elites slowing assaults down.
