World Buffs were very much part of Vanilla WoW. To the extent we see now? No.
Then again, the community in Classic is bigger than it ever was during Vanila, so it’s safe to say we are more able to pop Wbuffs to a greater degree. This is something we as the community have chosen to do, for whatever reason.
But to stay a bit on the topic you replied to: We are talking about removing a core part of the game, not adding. With that being said I dont know what you find so laughable. Beacuse my opinion about World buffs, which were a core part of the game and many guilds relied upon them to clear content, wether that was MC, BWL, ZG, AQ20/40 or Naxx still stand.
And if you absolutely hate them, then don’t use them as they are less important in the bigger picture to the way we play the game now compared to back then.
For some guilds this might not be true, not everyone is on equal level of skill and/or dedication compared to the more hardcore playerbase.
And before you start chopping up my statement about world buffs back in vanilla, all I can say:
Dude, I too played back then, the guild I was in it was mandatory to come fully buffed, pots and all to each raid. Was this the “meta”? I dont think so, but World buffs were mostly mandatory. So to say anything else, THAT is laughable.