it's not about liking or not liking, it's the reason behind implementing it since level 1, when we do know that some stuff like xp scrolls 100% can be abused, for example.
There was a point for implementing them on official, but why on a fresh start? More, if you do really plan to merge both servers, your problem is always gonna be how to make people catch up on items and not exp, the exp is not the problem on classic.
I think we debated this times and times over, classic is a super hard to catch up chronicles in terms of items not exp.