Should the Hall of Legends remain an instance?

I had gone to the Hall of Legends in Ogrimmar to check on item prices, and
before I left, I noticed the graphics for the exterior shot of Ogrimmar had been
left as is - i.e. through the portal you notice that the gates are closed
instead of permanently open.

I thought that would be a very simple fix to change the graphics during an
interim patch, but now I'm thinking - since anyone can enter it, is there a
necessity to keep it as an instance? I think in Ogrimmar there should be room to
expand the area behind the gate...I haven't had an Alliance toon since the very
beginning, so I don't remember how it looked like in Stormwind, but I'm guessing
there should be room there, too. Or is it too much work to change that?

Agnos wrote:

Don't change what's not broken. Its working fine as an instance, leave
it as an instance. BTW, the gates had nothing to do with who could
enter the Hall of Legends. Anyone could open the gate, you had to be
the correct rank to walk through the portal. I presume that it being an
instance still keeps Alliance out, so there is at least one "feature"
to keeping it an instance.

Later,
~Rehlow