Exactly, it adds to the world that you can go save someone else in danger or to be saved by another adventurer just like you.
I had to go onto other MMO to get that feeling with weapon skills still present in levels and seeing yellow, orange and red quests. But now I can experience that once again in Warcraft IP which is pretty neat.
I died in retail. Of course it’s more forgiving, but it’s not like player is invincible, unless you’re extremely boring person, pulling mobs one by one and never try to run through hordes of them to cut the path.