I think you are right and had hoped that Blizz would take more liberties with the BoA system.

As someone with a load of alts that can't ever seem to get into decent gear. I level almost exclusively with greens but my main is a lock enchanter and I often solo low level instances for the shards ( I can still make a killing with brlliants) it woudl be nice if I all the boss drops were BoA so I could then send the gear to an alt that can't get a run because everyone is in Northrend.

I'm often complain about some of the challenge that gets taken out of the game, and here I know i could appear to be a hypocrit, but some of the old world stuff is great and it sucks that so many poeple never experience it. At least let them give it a go solo at 70 or 80 and be able to pass the drops to an alt so it's not completely a wasted run.

It might also help with the damn beggars that are in the cities asking for runs. A 60 might be more likely to escort someone through the deadmines if they can pick up a pair of gold-flecked gloves for their twink while doing so.

Blizzard should definitely make more use out of the Bind to Account system, and this is a perfect situation where it would benefit the player without causing havoc in the delicate server economy.