Originally Posted by
Steelangel
"Blizzard has been in bed with the Alliance..."
While giving the Horde more amusing quest design, not paying attention at all to faction balance, nerfing Alliance racials in raids, not splitting the Nightborne as a neutral race, etc. The only thing the Alliance has going for it is that it has the overarching "good guy" storyline that has no effect on players' experience of the game itself.
They either lean way into the "Horde is evil" tropes that they have been pushing since MoP or just give up and merge the factions. In the new book, Zappyboi wondering why the Night Elves were still fightin' mad after his faction literally committed genocide against them is a symptom of the writers trying to pussyfoot around a faction that has now, twice, gone the route of wanton destruction and evil: first Pandaria, then Teldrassil.
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This! All of this. Don't forget Wildstar's Dominion, which was definitely the cartoon-level evil that would fit right into WoW's universe.
The bigger problem is that the "heroes" are all working together to stop evil baddie #532895 from destroying the universe every damn expansion. Saving the day for what? So the Horde can go on pillaging and the Alliance can go on feeling bad about it? Yech.