Yes, I played in Legion, on Defias & Co, and it was so F bad that I quit mid Legion, because it was nowhere near as I was expecting from my previous WoW experience.
In Legion, Horde & Alliance were just questing together in peace most of the time. I could search for a fight for hours, and when I finally found someone who didn’t phase out / used WQ addon / accept queue, they were just standing doing nothing waiting for me to kill them, sometimes emoting. Actual fights were rare.
Only at WPvP world quests, like Brawl, Murlocks etc, were fights from time to time, and Suramar + Shal’Aran FP while majority of ppl where still questing there. Sometimes WB areas, but majory were phasing in/out at any sight of danger. With WQ around Oceanus Cove in Azuna, I could camp Shackle’s Den FP for hours, solo, and none of the Horde ever came back to take revenge for one-shots on arrival. Same with many other FPs and Tower WQ. The final straw was constant trash talking from Alliance for killing that Horde because “he just wanted to do wq… awwww”.
When I came back, before BfA pre-patch, I boosted my rogue, and completed class campain till the end of Argus - in all that time I had 11 fights, very bad and boring fights…
Granted, I didn’t took part in organized guild vs guild WPvP on Defias, I don’t even know if anything like that was happening - never heard about it, looked for it, asked in g-chat / zones / etc - nothing like that was ever mentioned by anyone. Maybe I missed it, or it was just so small that it would hardly matter anyway.
In BfA I always have fights, so at least value for the time spent is much much higher for me. I finally have very similar WPvP experience to what I was expecting. I even meet same players on RP shards most of the time. More than half of the Horde I meet, who want to fight, are from Argent Dawn btw.
I don’t like current sharding because of many reasons - you can see some in my previous post.
But I think Blizzard won’t remove sharding / War Mode - it’s a supperior system, even with it’s current many flaws. The more you, me, everybody else give feedback about how much current sharding sux and why - better the chances of it’s improving and changing for the better, and that’s the best that could happen, imo.
P.S.: For anyone reading this - Want to join WPvP guild / community, or tell others about yours - go here and DO IT