I've more or less come to the realization for myself that Dragonflight needs to meet the mark that they've set in place for it. There can't be another repeat of cut content like WoD, botched story execution like BfA / SL, horrifying time-disrespecting gameplay elements like BfA / SL... More or less, I've come to one conclusion.
If Dragonflight fails and ends up being a bad expansion, I feel like it'll be either the last expansion or second to last expansion. Either that, or development resources will be thinned out to the point where Microsoft outsources WoW's development to multiple studios as a semi-maintained live service with weekly / monthly events, and that's it.
WoW cannot afford another screw-up. I will admit that I've pre-purchased Dragonflight, if only for the vague hope that it will be good, but the beta and the classes have me hopeful, alongside the moment to moment gameplay. I'm cautiously optimistic, but fully aware that this could go south very, very quickly. If this expansion ends up being bad, then I'm going to have to drop WoW in its entirety for my own sake.
What do you guys think?