I think these questions highlight an important consideration:
Is the truly classic Everquest experience something that can even be re-created? I know what you're talking about, and long for it myself. But I think a lot of that has to do with an era of Everquest in its relative infancy, where people were experiencing it as something novel and genuinely new. Now it's not that way, and MMO culture has changed dramatically since 2001. Do genuine "noobs" exist in P99 as they did in 2001? Definitely not. People running around like fools, wasting their precious time for little to no tangible pay-off (myself definitely included) are not as numerous as they once were. I don't think any rule set or wipe will solve this problem, because everybody already knows what the end-game and purpose of Everquest (and all MMO's) is.
Simply put, you can't go back home again. It's tragic but nonetheless true.
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