You probably dont know that many people :/
I played on Shattered Hand-EU from the start in WoW and I'll agree that the first 2 weeks were almost completely unplayable due to constant servercrashes etc.(Players on our server did cause it themselves tho when they decided to gather up 7 full groups of alliance to raid the crossroads.)
However aside from one particular occasion when the servers were down 3 days straight, the complaints from our community was almost nonexistant, people werent overjoyed but as far as I can tell there was only afew forum posts about it and once the servers came back up again there were pretty much no lag anymore and we only had 2 or 3 more server crashes until TBC came out, at wich point I quit so after that I can't really speak for or against it.
However, and this is my point: The communities back in 2005-2006 were dealing with a fairly new concept, MMOs suddenly seemed to sprout everywhere and still, no other MMO experienced the same strain on the servers as blizzards WoW. Now afew years has gone by and suddenly everyone expects a magical fix that will let everyone play the very second the game becomes availible, with no issues at all. The communities has gotten worse, they whine more, theres more elitists. Interesting enough most of the whining posts are written by the very same scourge that pester the WoW forums, eventually noone takes them seriously and people look for other places to discuss properly.
Also, typing "fact" does not make it a fact.