Wow was innovative, it's better than most MMORPG out there.
I have a fairly lengthy MMO background. I played UO, EQ, T4C, DAoC, Lineage 2, AO and FFXI. And I am no Blizzard fanboy either.
From all the game I played, WoW was by far one of the most finished product on the market. It is also the only MMORPG which successfully appealed to both casual and hardcore players.
You are entitled to your opinion, no arguing with that. But I do think WoW is objectively one of the very best of its kind.
Oh and it's definitely not true that "People that stop playing WoW, stop playing WoW." I generally play for like a year then stop for 6 months, and go at it again. Almost everyone I met online in the game stopped for several months at some point and came back later.