In all fairness I haven't seen legion try to do any of that, i still think people have grossly taken the novel Illidan out of context (esp by not reading it) and colouring anything in legion by it. Xe'ra gives a good context to Illidan's actions, it is very much in the spirit of the character Illidan both in WC3 and in the WotA if people bother to actually read it. @
RH92 - TBC will always be the anomaly in illidan's character profile, it did not fit WC3 RoC/TFT , it did not fit wotA - it presented an Illidan all of a sudden gone crazy and bad - i.e. they needed a popular villain for their first expansion, something big, and threw Illidan under the bus for it, as they started killing off all their major characters.
I like how they brought Illidan back, i don't mind them restoring his original destiny, they did try to ride the TBC era as a detached Illidan not clued in to what was going on, which they can get away with, becuase unlike other expansion bosses, Illidan really does nothing himself in TBC except make some speech at the top of the black temple, everything else that happens in that expansion has the people you actually deal with involved in it. It was after TBC they decided to make expansion bosses feature far more heavily.. Illidan's quietness in TBC seems to have worked well for him, cos they don't have to fix him, just show us our view of him was not the whole picture