Just my two cents: the more you allow people more talent points, the more overpowered and more difficult it is to balance. Of course with trying to balance PVP and PVE there's even more issues. However, should they perhaps limit talent points to 51 or 61 (like vanilla or BC) that would help to remove many imbalance issues. Secondly, people will still want to increase their level so instead of more talent points, give a self-administered boost to stats such as +10 str or stam or whatever, and make it permanent. I still liked the game in BC, but they keep changing and changing and making the game more accessible to crapier players and it really diminishes the game's fun. Now obviously by brining in more casual gamers they make a ton more money, so financially it's a good choice, but that's also called "selling out" and it loses them respect. They lost my respect, anyway, for all that matters. And by not having lock out on heroics, not to mention how easy heroics are in WotLK... man... /sigh
Don't get me wrong, there should be fairly easy ways to get decent gear - like normal runs for good blues - but the heroic versions I wish were way more difficult. Instead you get people who just hit 80 and wearing all their questing greens able to get through a lot of the heroics. But if anyone played in vanilla - do you remember how tough Scholomance was?? And LBRS? Not to mention 10 man raiding UBRS! Man, it was a rare day to actually finish every boss in there. I couldn't tell you how many times the final boss alone kicked my groups ass and we didn't down him - or at least took 5-6 tries to do it. That's what I expected from heroics if my char has decent lvl 80 blues on. On top of that, the best gear still isn't that hard to obtain and then you have super uber leet people who go into pvp and faceroll everything (in particular healers - there's no reason a healer should be able to out heal your dps if you're in relatively good gear and playing a dps class). But I think a lot of the issues stem from too many talents. That's just my opinion but if you consider how significant it is to gain a new power/spell/ability compared to gaining a few points of stats, and then consider that with 71 talent pts to distribute, the balance gets significantly more skewed.
I'm done with WoW and I don't know if I'll play another MMO again, but if I do I hope they make their game to be really good and compelling and not simply go for easy access to all. IMO the only way a new MMO can steal WoW's thunder is to start by siphening off the elite class of players and that will only happen if it has original WoW type difficulty of encounts along with the absolutely massive, diverse, and immersive world Warcraft created.
