Hopefully the obt experience stresses this point a little more.
Now that people have seen two obvious effects of pet shop removal.
1) Ah supply is locked down and controlled by a few people. There's no longer a direct barter layer making the micromanaging of supply nearly impossible.
2) Gold spammers/power levelers are now spamming general chat, instead of using shops.
Rmt will exist regardless. You cannot remove it, only direct it down a channel that's less annoying.
Not a chance in hell I would wade through that sea of nonsense reading each one to find whatever it was I wanted.
If Pet shops were around, if people have the time to control the market on the AH, they can buy the stuff off the pet shops right in Velika, too.
This is worthless. It's one of the reasons XIV was a flop at release because it had NO ah and only worthless as hell player shops. Doesn't matter what extras are ontop of the shops. The more convenience you add to the shops just makes it closer to an auction house.