I personally would love to see blizzard hunt down all abandoned projects that were being developed for vanilla wow and implement them into Season of Mastery like old Hyjal or the Emerald Dream.
I like the quest chains that take you to parts of the world that you don’t normally go. SoD has done a good job with that. Locking runes behind gold or rep grinds is not fun, and just annoying. Overall more exploration is always a good thing.
Fill in the gaps. Classic is fine, but there are so many tiny speed bumps. I don’t want things to be easier, keep that difficulty, but give me more pointers. I don’t want everything on a plate like Retail, but I have to resort to All The Things addon to find some quest hubs.
Make tanking runes in line with the rest. The first few runes (on my rogue) were fine and fun! Pick pocket this, go sneak there. The tank ones are “gimme 5 gold”. That’s boring as hell.