My mind must be playing tricks on me. Do they still put the gold stuff on the floor to mimic a golden road on TPIR Golden Road? I may not miss it, but it showed well on the set imo.
Other than that, I do miss 2 things from WOF:
1) the free spin wedge. It was like collecting poker chips.
2) And of course, I miss Vanna White actually being of use on WOF in being a letter turner. I always loved mechanics on game shows other than Classic Concentration which is one of the only game shows that going computerized actually helped the show out. Computerizing WOF made Vanna's job obsolete. If they did the changeover to a newer puzzle board technology in 2011, the option of using OLED overlays for each letter on the old puzzle board would have meant the old puzzle board could have been reused. Why would you do this? Keep the aesthetics of the old board, still give Vanna a job to do, and she could prep the board for a toss-up round by having all the letters pre-turned and lighting up each letter on OLED displays remotely as needed. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, they could toss out all the letter overlays too. Of course, 3 of my 4 reasons are already addressed with the current puzzle board. It just feels out of place having Vanna there other than that there's always been a woman standing next to the puzzle board. Maybe that's too much wishful thinking and a bit off topic.