Easily? Given all of the customization options available to the race? No. Further, a race that can look like every other race in the game comes with a host of issues.
Due to technical limitations.It's not a limitation of the game. It's a conscious choice from the developers.
Neither of those expansions introduced a new class.TBC had two characters on their expansion box cover art. BfA had two characters.
So we need to make exceptions for Bards because they can't measure up?We don't need them to be in the cover art. Having the BBEG on the cover art would've worked. After all, we don't have the new playabe goblins and worgen races on the cover art for Cataclysm.
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If you're utilizing the ETC's aesthetics, it'd be rather hard to deviate. The core concept of a class remains persistent throughout a class' thematic. You can't have ETC in one spec and a classical Bard in another. It wouldn't work since specs share common abilities. If one spec is headbanging to metal music, ALL specs will be headbanging to metal music,.
Again, making exceptions for the Bard because as a concept it can't measure up to the criteria.Or you just put the next big bad on the cover instead, which has worked for numerous expansions as well.
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That was the only prediction that mattered, since my personal preferences weren't predictions.