I'm in agreement in their reasoning about wanting to Wow TBC gold make changes to their tree of talents (too cookie cutter the majority of people browsed for a building and chose that one, and it was because talents like 1% increase damage to targets, aren't "exciting") but then they simply replaced them with some choices which... ended to be cookie-cutter, and/or mandatory to have the spec feel good and feel even more restrictive.
Too diluted even for a noob. The way they backed them was that they wanted to reach out to a less experienced playerbase. It wasn't a great idea for casual players.
It's not a win/win situation for developers, as I'm sure. Some players (like you) are hooked on the totally fake feeling of authority, mastery and the uniqueness resulted from placing points in exactly identical things in exactly the same order as everybody else. They feel lost, depressed and restricted if you narrow it down to a few viable sensible, balanced options without a right answer.
Talents were a terrible mechanic. They were a smart choice for those who searched for the highest levelling spec, and then followed it slavishly. Noobs and casuals were sucked into the system. Intelligent people sought out the best raiding spec, and then adhered to it with a mindless. Thus the raids full of absolutely identical mages, warlocks or warriors. Rogues have identical specs and the same rotations, all of them chasing the same BiS sets. There's no homogeneity all over the world, and there are a million ways to get yourself fooled, and be branded a noob by all the other players. It is necessary be required to pay a tax in order for fixing it.
Yes, there's a totally illusion of control and authority as you place your fourth talent point into "Do +1 percent more of this" or stick your thirty-first talent point in "this should be baked-in forty capability". It's all fake. You're not developing any technique or mastering anything beyond a five year old's book of stickers. (But perhaps, I'm sure that a significant portion of Classic's most passionate followers are the kind of people who prop up their egos by assuming that a winning fifteen-year old game solved by playing games that are based on buy WOW Burning Crusade Classic Gold children's stickers makes them a hardcore gaming god.)