It's no secret that back in the day blizzard had never really thought about the nature of magic, the cosmic forces it draws upon and many other lore oriented things
we passed years settling with guesses about such stuff or simply accepting them because they were there since beta, for example what is a shadow priest and how is it different than affliction warlock, or how is destruction warlock different than a fire mage
Legion brought an end to this,we now have things charted: we are users of Fel magic, which represents chaos and entropy, so far so good
but after this retcon does affliction even make sense anymore? i used to thing that destruction was the outlier, why do we even have a mage spec? but after seeing how Fel is literally all about destruction and chaos, now destruction has become the 'default' warlock spec with demo a close second
how does affliction fits into this anymore? why would disciples of the most chaotic and destructive cosmic force end up using almost exclusively shadow magic, slowly corrupting their victims much like a void wielder would do?
affliction spells are supposed to still be fel powered masquaraded as shadow but that makes about as little sense as having affliction throwing around beams of light with small glints of fel taint in it
some will say that affliction dots are more physical in flavour compared to shadow priest dots which are more mental, but isn't fear a mind affecting spell?
is there any lore basis to suport affliction anymore? if so i'd love to hear it