I'm not sure why you'd be bummed about the lightforged Draenei... all subraces are is extensions or different versions of the original. It's the same thing with a little flair. The devs also stated that there would be more, so if you don't like that one, just play something else. Me? I love 'em. I'll be playing one or two and might even race change.
I don't think most races are hard to add lorewise to any faction (though i would leave them in the Alliance cause they are already many broken in the Alliance), the details is working on the new models (mostly the female models and make most armor work for the actual broken model -i think they would only need to work helmets though))
Indeed, but I did look at the Zandalar dungeon that was shown. The running and walking animations looked like the ToT Zandalari Troll animations (which had a nelf rig, but two or three custom animations), while the sword attack animations looked like the night elf male ones, mixed with, of course, the new Legion melee attack animations.
Possible. It makes sense, though. Better to use the troll rig for most animations, and just have custom standing, walking and running animations rather than stick with a Night Elf rig and have them do the Night Elf dances.
I'm willing to believe they used a fair bit of animation retargeting there, instead of making new animations, though.
Yeah, it really is. Though mages and hunters also work, thanks to the Lightforged established on Argus.
And yeah, Lightforged Shadow Priest and Void Elf Holy priests are gonna be weird.
L.F.Draenei vs Zandalar Trolls = no real competition.
I imagine they will. I mean, have you played through Blackrock Depths? I'd be surprised if they don't end up with shamans as a class. As for the ironforge dwarves having them, they were trained by the wildhammer in Cata. Similar to how pandaren taught others how to be monks in MoP.
Well they did summoned Ragnaros, and there were a lot of Shamans, it didn't work so well the first time around though, maybe the second time around they will be quite restrictive in it (maybe the Shamans on the Dark Iron become an elite group of warriors, just to make more restriction on it, to make sure the Firelord shit does not happen again)