Nope. Year One was certainly an adventure, learning all the systems, the forever 29, everyone learning new weapons. The experience of getting my first legendary from a chest (hey, remember chest and mat farming for marks?)...The Hex Arc-Castor HRC...what a piece of garbage! Sure, there was a lot of fun there, but there were major problems: incoherent plot that made little sense, no real "objective," Thorn/TLC meta in PVP, very few events (One week of Queen's Wrath? =(), People will have more examples as well. Once the DLCs came in, things got better. CE was a revenge story, as was HoW. There were clear motivations, and the story telling was vastly improved. But the vanilla game was not as good at TTK is now. I loved Vanilla, but at the same time, I wouldn't go back to the way it was. I think the OP has a bit of rosegold colored sunglasses on... (Sorry, I thought about it, but "shaders" was too heavy a pun!)