Indeed. Buying a gold account is so you can play on gold servers, such are the forums: reserved for gold and VIP users. Classic users who didn't pay for gold are now able to invade the forums reserved for gold / vip users, and I think it's not fair unless gold users get something new as well.
I agree.
To me, Gold and VIP - VIP especially - are overrated:
Gold lets you play on the gold servers and work on offline server RCs.
VIP gets you what... a tiny bit of webspace for grawl-related things only, and a tag? Oh, and free gold on saturdays. Whoopie. That isn't a whole lot, and isn't worth the cost in my eyes.
Gold/VIP needs something else, especially if the forums aren't going to be exclusive anymore... something to make it worth the price.