Will never get it as well ... While indeed NCSoft started to do weird stuff with the lore it happened before Interlude actually. Why the hell would there be dinosaur in l2 world ? Content is poor, client is one of the shittiest.
I can understand the hate for GoD though, it's like someone said screw it lets change everything to make money (specially on the latest, Salvation, with instant 85 on char creation...)
Now, classic seems really promising, it's not as it was back then, nor too different, they re-implement stuff slowly, correcting some mistake they made on the way (like dinosaur in primeval, they are gone.) I want it to be what Lineage 2 should have been according to their initial plan, with the map they imagined and their lore. Time will tell.