Pandaria was the worst expansion in WoW history, managing to allienate 30% of the playerbase almost from its release day and being the only reveal trailer with a negative like:dislike ratio, which has only slightly risen since then.
Metzen himself announced the end of the expansion as "the end of the whimsical pandas", not even referring to them as pandaren, and their presence in game since has been almost as unimportant as it was in Warcraft 3, where they played literally no part other than an optional character in a side campaign.
Pandaren and monks have remained through the years one of the least played races and classes, at one point going below even goblins and gnomes.
The "most requested and wanted" race, class and expansion in the game is perhaps the biggest lie that the vocal minority and blizzard ever told themselves.
Pandaria was based off a lie, that was proven to be such from the launch of the expansion when it immediately started bleeding players, and in every years since, where the panda expansion has contributed less than 1% of anything to any of the subsequent stories.
^ these are all irrefutable facts, as they are backed by official numbers released by blizzard and/or a congregation of statistics from various sites, which even though not representative of millions of players, all paint the same picture, which is what statistics are in the end.
Now for the good part out of the shitshow that was this expansion: pandyr, perhaps the coolest race that never was:
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...pical-Pandaran
Whilst Samwise Didier's original april fool's joke was something he made for his daughter, Pandyr were a much more thought out, interesting mix of ideas which everyone would have reacted positively to, as it had a true Warcraft vibe.
Not capitalizing on this potential race is one of the biggest mistakes that blizzard continues to make, but hey, apparently someone random guy on the forums asked for playable foxes.
Hopefully one day blizzard comes to their fucking senses, but judging by the latest transmog abomination they released in the shop, who am I kidding.