If you don't like the difficulty/loot changes they made in BC you definitely wouldn't like Lich King, and I assume Cataclysm will move in the same direction. PVE questing is noticeably easier in Lich King than vanilla/BC and the loot is still awesome. It is a good tradeoff for a streamlined game, but it does get a little silly when I only need a couple of my 25+ spells/powers to get through 95% of the quests.

Have you tried out Starcraft II? I always like the idea of those games so much, then play like 4 levels, totally suck and never play again. The mods people are coming out with though are pretty amazing though. Like FPSes and stuff like that.