This is exactly my problem with WoW and why I left. Way too much over simplifying and hand-holding. They took away all decision making and thinking players had to do when it came to stats and talent tree choices and pretty much said you'll play the class the way we want you to play the class. So, like you said, all you need to do is grab gear and equip it and not concern yourself with the stats on it. They may as well take out "Cloth", Plate", "Leather" and "Chain" armor types and have it so all gear can be equipable by all classes and it will automatically adjust to whichever armor type your class can use.
All that decision making of going to Elitist Jerks and using their class spreadsheets. There were a couple dozen guys crunching the math and the rest of us just following their conclusions. Or Simcraft after they released it. Now you too could math out your gear!
And talent choices? Eh, you had maybe 5 points worth of fudging around and the rest of your 50+ points had to go to certain talents.
You don't have to like the new system, but please don't pretend the old system was any better.