Also because of more, or theoretically more policing on names and degen behavior. You are not allowed to blatantly interfere with RP events and such.
If you don't want to participate in the "RP" of Goldshire Inn its easy enough to avoid. My only reference here was Turtle WoW and it was genuinely kind of neat to see a bunch of nerds LARPing as Scarlet Crusade members out in the world doing whatever. So hoping for more of that.
The guild referenced is RPing as a Mercenary Guild and fairly lighthearted about it. I don't expect full nonsense but having at least a minor character backstory is one of their reqs. Definitely a much different take on the game than I am used to so that is cool to me.