I'm pretty close to being a Classic purist, but multiple chat windows is probably the last non-Classic feature I'd want removed, if only because doing so would simply result in people essentially being forced to use something like Discord in order to communicate while playing. You would join a group and they would immediately give you the Discord channel info. This would suck and feel much more un-classic than the current chat window situation. (If you think this wouldn't happen, especially once people got serious about grouping 50+, you're nuts). That being the case, I don't think they should do anything with chat windows.
Spell book is different and I'm in full agreement with Daldaen about it being much more than a convenience issue. It really does change how people play the game. The game is designed to be hard and unforgiving, and to essentially require grouping up with other players to safely get anything done. The current state of the game on Blue is NOT EverQuest. It is basically EverQuest on training wheels at this point.
EQ was NOT designed to be a low-risk game that coddles the player and places them on a comfortable loot treadmill. It was designed to essentially be an online adaptation of tabletop D&D adventures, in which players would start from nothing and gradually build their characters up while going on quests, exploring a massive world, adventuring with other players in underground dungeons and killing plenty of dangerous, exotic foes. That was "The Vision" of EverQuest, and is how the game is best enjoyed. The modern P1999 Blue version of EverQuest as a sort of competitive loot pinata simulator is, quite frankly, a perversion.
This is why any changes that result in the game feeling and playing more true to the original "Vision" (such as spellbook medding) are great in my opinion.
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