Originally Posted by
Lothaeryn
I mean to be fair, gnomes were literally created as the Alliance techno-foil to the goblins in Warcraft II, explaining why Alliance had Flying machines and Submarines when the Horde had Airships and Sea Turtles. They never really had any more nuance from that and have always been a token joke race as a result.
Night Elves literally were a new faction and race that had their own narrative arc and aesthetic that no other faction had. Its understandable why one would have more popularity compared to the other in that case, and as a result, more narrative screentime and development time.
One could argue that Gnomes could have gotten a similar treatment with dev resources, but lets be honest, who would have cared about Gnomes retaking Gnomeregan aside from people who wanted to see what it looked like rebuilt?