When did Everquest start to really decline in quality of experience?

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For those who are curious about anything post-OoW that was any fun, I will list below.

Depths of Darkhollow- Monster missions. You can literally play as Lord Nagafen trying to burn down waves of raiders. Or as a "group" trying to kill all of the nameds in SolB, Lguk, etc. This was fun because you could suddenly jump into the skin of a class you never played.

Serpent's Spine- Drakkin as a race, Crescent Reach as a newbie zone, interesting quests and leveling path from 0-60.

Seeds of Destruction- TIME TRAVEL, mostly seeing Kunark and the Field of (Bone)Scale and talking to Trakanon, Gorenaire, Jaled'Dar, accepting quests from them, etc. Also seeing Kaesora pre-destruction. Unfortunately this expansion also introduced Mercenaries, which were a boon to soloers but really permanently locked the game into 2-box mode. One boxer could now essentially have 4 people just by themselves.