On the contrary, I have the utmost respect for the lore as it has been developed, (though we have to admit the lore for Warcraft 2 would not have the depth and forethough it would today and was heavily informed by prevailing tropes). Especially in WoW and with the Warcraft chronicles fleshing it out. One of the main problems with this Blood Elf discussion is that those seeking High Elves on the Alliance seem unable to reconcile themselves to how the story has progressed.
How often have you seen the decision to add the Blood Elves to the Horde portrayed as dumb writing or not making sense? Never mind that Blizzard devoted a huge chunk of TFT expansion pack to explaining this and then further developed the explanation in TBC. The storyline was not poorly written as they claim, it was written in a way that produced an outcome that did not agree with their expectations.
And how often have you seen since the sheer denial of the people seeking playable High Elves of everything, based either in lore or word of gods from the devs, that says it will not happen. I mean two weeks ago we had Ion basically state it wasn't going to happen because he felt High Elves were Blood Elves, and yet these groups went out of their way to minimise his words, the words of the game director, as being of one man, he is part of a team, he can be overruled.
Funny how Ion is scapegoated for most other decisions made, but when they try and minimise something he says, suddenly he is part of a collective.
Even this discussion, about what could have been, is an excuse for headcannon-ing and to sustain the hope for High Elves even in the face of a 90% identical clone being added.
Fundamentally, it is this disrespect for the lore that annoys me. They can't accept the weird and wonderful ways this story has deviated from bog standard fantasy. It's like a never ending effort to undo being different and restore a tolkien status quo.