The Forsaken Kingdom update just stripped away offline play, LAN, and modular settings. Why?

I appreciate that Blizzard is still updating Warcraft 3 after all these years, but this Forsaken Kingdom update takes some huge steps backward.

What is bad about this update:

• LAN & Offline Play are completely gone: LAN costs Blizzard literally nothing because players host locally. Killing offline mode and forcing an always-online check on a 20-year-old RTS makes zero sense.
• Massive, forced bloat: Another mandatory 11 GB update on top of the already bloated 30 GB download - for a game that originally was a little over 1 GB total.
• Locked graphics options: We lost the ability to mix and match. You can't use Reforged models alongside Classic icons or UI anymore.
• The new hero: In my opinion, the new hero's abilities are unnecessarily complicated, and he looks totally out of place in Classic mode.

What Blizzard needs to fix / add:

• Bring back LAN and true offline play: Don't hold local matches behind Battle.net servers.
• Modular downloads: Give players check-boxes for what they actually want installed on their hard drive:
  • Reforged
  • Definitive Edition HD assets
  • The Forsaken Kingdom campaign cutscenes and audio
• Granular graphics settings: Bring back the option to mix and match Classic and HD elements freely.

Keep making content, but stop stripping away basic features that the game has had since 2002.