less general chat is a good thing. you are not missing much.
Unless you enjoy watching the great unwashed exchange cliches.
BW could script zone chat dialogue for each area , say about 8 hours worth all based off chat logs from other games and you Would Not know the difference. It would satisfy your need to observe innane banter.
In fact, what most of you are doing in game is reiterating the same dialogue over and over and over.
Easiest way to observe this is to pay attention to the repeating patterns of discourse in pvp. I've watched the same conversation in chat occur ad naseum in pvp areas in multiple games ( here , WoW , elsewhere)
The average player , most of you , are only capable of so much originality , very little really.
Most of what you believe is communication is actually people repeating common cliches based on certain triggers.
You are awaiting the appropriate moment to interject your " Derp " comment and so is everyone else.
This is the video game discourse you are missing