@noiob
You are not alone at all. Like not in the slightest.
The brief period I played WoW, I went on a low level raid with a friend who was showing me how to play and my first run through got a purple rarity parrot pet she had been wanting forever and had never gotten at all.
I of course didn't realise that purple is like ultra ultra rare. So I popped that pet and bound it to me because yay birb.
Whoops