Like Blizzard held back a LOT from beta, or, the expansion seems...half-done?

I'm NOT complaining. I'm liking it so far, it's a blast, and I like the slower leveling curve. I also am getting into the stories, and it's well done.

BUT

Where are the rep rewards? BC was all about Rep rewards! There's some, but very little compared to BC.

Where are the professions? They're wierd right now. I know they said they were'nt doing the BOP epics anymore, but it seems like it's more about engineering right now.

Herbs are rare so far. Leather is easy, cloth is harder to find. Are there new health pots? Mana pots?

What do the dailies look like at 80?

I'm just curious. I havent read that deeply into the post 80 game, and I know there's more new content coming to progress to Arthas, but I dunno. Something feels missing in it all. Something to work towards? Maybe?

I know a lot of the cool post 70 stuff happened in BC about half-way through - Ogrila, Netherwing, Skyguard, and new recipes and such, and then, of course, the Isle. Dare we hope for something like that this time, around June/July? Or, is Blizzard *really* working hard on an expansion every year, and there's not as much cool stuff this time, because of that?

I dunno. Something just feels "off". Maybe it's the complete lack of "Holy shit!" in chat, that BC had for weeks, as people discovered new content and drops. I was running around the Mechagnome zone last night, I LOVE this storyline, but any comments about it were met with insults and the usual idiots. I've taken to turning chat off now, because nobody helps anyone anymore, and it's just epeen fights and insults and people making [anal] jokes. Is that's whats missing? The community? Someone asked where the trainers were in the hold, and when I responded, I got insults to "not help the effing newbs" and "L2Google" and endless abuse. It's getting ridiculous. I'm spending more time watching for other players, because of the problems they cause, stealing mobs, nodes, or dragging 20 mobs with them - often on purpose, so they can go "hur hur hur" in guild chat. Gah! Why did I come back to this idiocy?

I swear, if they offer free transfers off of my server, I'm *gone*. I'd rather level in a wasteland than deal with these idiots.

Anyway, this was more about what's to come. What do you think? Do you think Blizzard has a bunch more up their sleeves, or did they cut back this time to shorten the development time, and we'll be going through all this again a year from now?