Bacon I think your being a bit unfair on AoC to be fair you were not at Wow launch, I remember you starting to play, I was 40’ish by then and most of the early problems were sorted.
I was a bit late in starting WoW myself, as I wanted to know what other people though before buying the game when I made my mind up to give it a go, I couldn’t find a copy after they took it off the shelves, I ended up having to pay silly money on Ebay for a copy.
When I started the game it was a bit of a nightmare tbh the servers were really unstable, there were lots of bugs.
Really think you should give AoC a month or 2 longer to see how they deal with the problems