Those historical themes do sound interesting, but then again the further you back you go, the more the world becomes different. A couple hundred years after Hawkwing at least would be enough for all the cultures in the books to be in place. The After the Breaking years/Free Years are interesting, but might not be that familiar for a main setting.
On the other hand there's the issue is that the closer you get to the present, the more canon characters become important in the grand scheme of things, prophecies unfulfilled as @Arkandel said.
So that's why I'd still value a future where there's 1) male channelers, 2) a familiar world to the main setting of the books, and 3) a world open for changes on a large scale, with players having a big role in making these changes happen. But I'm never going to say no to playing a WoT game just because it's set during the Trolloc Wars.