I have finally rolled a character here and entered the world.
Without any fancy faceroll addons, just the very basics I've found on this forum.
I accepted the first quest and the location didn't show on my map - I had to open my quest log and read that the NPC is "to the west down the road" and I really turned my character to face north so I know where to go.
This is amazing.
I'm used to quests showing on my map, I'm used to playing Horde, and I assume the quests were slightly different in Vanilla.
This is going to be a mind blowing journey.