offoptic: Item links could be largely removed if the P99 admins wanted them gone. That came up during development of the P99 Green UI. The folks working on the UI proposed a means of disabling the majority of item links and the P99 admins (Nilbog and Rogean both) wanted it left in. I saw the conversation myself since I was helping out testing/etc. They feel links reduce their own staff workload due to trade scamming reduction. A few other non classic features were deliberately left in place for various reasons as well, such as some non-classicly large fonts and multiple chat windows. There are some other non-classic things left in because they either don't know how to change it or there simply wasn't time/ambition to do so, so "Why is this not classic?" amounts to something you have to answer on almost a case-by-case basis.
ontopic: I thought about this subjectc a little bit and feel it's harder to pick out a "most" under-powered character because there are several classes that might warrant that term in various aspects of the game. No one class sticks out so dramatically as enchanters do on the overpowered side of the spectrum. I tend to be down on Wizards but even those do pretty well for a subset of folks who simply want to level up solo then raid.
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