What I'd like to see?

Day and night + seasons

If they do implement housing at later date, let it be something like in LOTRO.

Specific area per race with around a dozen houses plus marketplace, gathering areas, auction houses etc. Entering the gate to the housing area brings up a list of districts that share the same template to avoid every being to crowded, with easy transition between districts.

Not something like in SW:Galaxies where you ended up with vast tracts of housing across the Tatooine sands or Dagobah swamps, on top of spawns and key locations and generally untidy and haphazrd.

Agreed. LotRO has had one of the best housing implementations I've seen so far. Tidy, fairly realistic, but without map sprawl.
You mean Open world PvP in more than one zone. Which requires hostile border crossing. I'm neutral on that, but there is a quite large zone with open world (uninstanced, or persistant world, whichever words suit your fancy the best) pvp. The option other games have of PvP vs PvE servers require entrance to enemy faction territory, which it doesn't seem so far from Tamriel Foundry this game will have.
This is the crux of Zenimax's attempt to appeal to two audiences: people who care about the IP, and people who want a "better mmo" that don't care about the IP. The problem with trying to appeal to the latter group is that "a better mmo" is subjective and widely defined. Making a better mmo in the developers' opinion is hit or miss whether the audience will receive it as such. Take GW2, for example, which has already implemented several of the things that Zenimax wants to - many people call GW2 a wow clone with no endgame. Even though game play is distinct (real time blocking and dodging, weapon based attacks - all things Zenimax wants to bring to the table), there is no trinity, and there is a type of pvp balance (to the degree that anyone can have an equal opportunity level 80 of any class and build if they have the character slot for it, and the person with 5 days vested can have the exact same attributes as one with 3 years vested). No matter what Zenimax does, some people are going to call it a wowclone. Some people will play it, "beat it" and move on. The ones that linger will more than likely be those who feel more attached to the IP.

I've not played WoW since Wrath, and no longer consider myself a fan of Blizzard, but in my opinion, the key to their success is that they were the first largely advertized casual friendly MMO. No other company can fill that niche because it's already been filled. The large player base and casual friendly game play drew in more and more players. They continue to seek their money by appealing to the greatest apparent income. The casual mmo has years of tuning and polish, and is the largest playerbase for someone seeking a casual quick group environment. Over the years, it's turned off a solid chunk of its original playerbase, and that's acceptable casualties for the money they're making according to their business ethic. Anyone believing that they can follow in Blizzard's shoes is deluding themselves with the siren song of capitalism - because anyone can become a Bill Gates, right?

The people that want WoW already have WoW. The people that want something other than WoW make the initial purchase of a new game hoping for the game that will sate them. And when it doesn't, they move on and usually don't come back, or worse, use the rest of their prepaid subscription to harass players that actually enjoy the game. There are people that want The Elder Scrolls, and they have voiced that they're not looking for WoW. Again, as to what constitutes WoWlike varies between people, but it's safe to say that every deviation away from TES will be lumped together as the sacrifice of making an MMO out of a single player series, and the larger that is, the more people will feel the IP was milked rather than built upon, alienating series fans and reducing the future potential of the IP.