Indeed, just remove them, or remake them to something that dosn't affect gameplay at all. There is no need for them what so ever. I'd much rather pick my race based on apperence than what gives me most DPS (I mostly PvE).
As it is now, it is only just another factor they have to account for when trying to balance classes.
All i have to say is.. 7 years! 7 years Alliance has complained about the same god damn thing that they cannot win any random bgs other than AV and IOC.
Now that top Horde pvpers go Alliance over a racial and suddenly Alliance wins every other BG _than_ AV or IOC, which haven't been touched, yet Horde now magically wins both of them everytime, but not anything else.
Horde whines that things must change FAST, things didn't change fast for Alliance so why should they change now?
I'd say suck it up! Alliance did for 7 years until any action was taken. It's not so nice to be on the loosing side now is it?
This is how it's been for us, you think we enjoyed it.
Don't care if the racial is OP keep it, great point here we'll eventually see if Blizzard favors Horde as much as we think they do.
Horde wins AV and IOC?
By the way, I was alliance for the most part since Vanilla (changed horde in WotLK, back to Alliance in Cata and back to horde yet again in the end of MoP). So what ever man. Dosn't change the fact that 99% of the PvP playerbase went to Alliance, making it a 60-40 ratio in win-loss (saw some documentation on it, on some website).
Before this the ratio was pretty much 50-50.