so lets sum up things over here… Blizzard is creating complex gameplay and complex classes… and their way of fixing this is the 1 button rotation and highlighting spells?? instead of making things simpler and accessible for more and more ppl… So they love the fact of making the game more and more complex… “fixing” the game around high end elitist players who are the lowest % ingame? why?? Are they gonna stop being PROFESSIONAL WOW players anymore by making the game simpler and accessible? Omg i really cannot believe what i m watching right now… Watching ION admiting about the complexity of the game and the accessibility level it has… They make it more and more complex and they act like “oh hey you normal players… we think about you as well… there you go… activate the one button playstyle or the highlightin skills button and you are rdy to go” ahahahahahahahah
So you felt the need to make another thread when there’s the official as well as a bunch of other threads on it…?
Blizzard are doing what they have always done, see what addons are popular and add their own version into the game.
Feel free to not use it.
I really don’t get why people have an issue with this.
If you want more complex gameplay and more control over what you do, then you can ignore the option. But it’s there for those who can find some sort of need for it.
Why do so many WoW players want everyone to play the game in the way that they themselves like it? Let people do their thing.
If I could decide what happens, I would just make every class have 4 dps buttons and 4 utility buttons. DPS cooldowns activate by pressing 2 buttons at the same time, and pressing abillities in a certain order and with certain combinations could activate aditional abilities/talents. That’s how I would solve it to balance skill and accessibility 
Automating gameplay in this case is like being given a software coding task and hardcoding the sample outputs in my opinion - the wrong approach.
Did you watch the video, or just skipped the parts that you did not like?
They explicitly said that they like the COMPLEXITY, but it creates the problem of a really big skill floor.
That means that they like how everyone that engages in end game content has all those things to do while playing.
What they do not like is that the guy that wants to RP in argent dawn, to farm mounts, herbs, to collect tmog, or to just dragonride across content, has to also deal with that complexity.
So what they thought is: We have this GSE addon, that says that you can make macros that do a medium rotation (not optimized at all), but they can use it with 1 button while watching a show and farming herbs.
Because they knew that most casuals would not know how to use that addon, they just got the idea to just make it baseline for people that are too casual to search an addon and do the setup.
Yeah, I think the players that want this level of complexity can find it in other games like MOBAS.
WoW has managed to have the best mmo combat system because in part of the fluidity and complexity of the system. It doesn’t have the engine to make a 4 button gameplay feel fluid/rewarding (like lol with its minimal latency and better server infrastructure does for example).
It is like story mode. Has 0 impact on the higher end playerbase, but some people with disability or ultra casuals might find use for it.
Oh look, another outraged hottake from someone who needs their own thread to voice an opinion.
“one-button class” meme has become the reality…
They all scared one button clicker will outperform them 
To be honest, I don’t really care (although I get why people think of this as a joke), because either I don’t use the help they provide, or use an addon I am familiar with, and that works 100% better than the built-in feature (like merged bags, or UI customisation).
The other reason is that I don’t know how can they make it work. The rotation are more complicated, that they can bring into a “1 button rotation”. The talents change how the abilities work, the situation, (you need to aoe, or single target at moment).
This is why I don’t use even addons for it, because the program doesn’t know the strategy behind my action. Why blow everything at the start, when I will need CD for bursting down a target 30 sec later, or the target will be untargateble in 10 second?
The ai can’t comprehend it, it needs the human instinct.
For me this whole ordeal is sad, because they use it only a rug, which under they can sweep all the big problems (terrible writing, bad events, boring content, etc).
They made a long video about a feature that is just one (small) part of the game, but they just blow it up way more important as it really is, because this is their diversion of said problems.
True.
That is a bit too much. But seriously, every class/spec should have 20 buttons max: max 10 rotational buttons (single, aoe, offensive cd) + max 10 non rotational buttons (charge, interrupt, cc, defensive cc, stance/shapeshift). Any more buttons beyond that is just a meaningless copy/rename/double of existing abilities.
Current wow’s talent and spellbook are undoubtedly over bloated. And the solution is to trim it down via simplification, not dumb it down with automation.
Sounds like too much to me.
I would say 8 max.
The whole point of this feature is to make the divide between “good players” and “bad players” smaller.
What is the point of “options” if your only 2 options are: 40 buttons… OR… “the computer does things”.
Where where is the “middle ground” option for 99% of the player-base? They are not fixing anything here. And because they are not fixing anything, we will be stuck with this feature that will need to be maintained and patched up.
Not to mention the idea of having people with this macro showing up to keys abhors me. Its like trying to do a +10 in greys. Except that right now, you can be so good that you can pull that off. With this feature, it will be the “quality of blizzards priority list” that will determine that.
There’s:
Assisted Highlight
The Assisted Highlight is a slightly more advanced version of the Single-Button Assistant. To use this feature, you will need to enable the “Assisted Highlight” option in the Advanced Options tab in the Gameplay Options menu.
The Assisted Highlight doesn’t automatically cycle through your abilities for you like the Single-Button Assistant does, but rather it recommends a button to press for your next action by highlighting a button on your action bar with a green border. There is no penalty to the Global Cooldown (GCD) for using this mode.
So it’s not only 2 options.
Have you tried a rotation assist addon?
If you think blinking procs sucks. Add even more blinking things on top of that. Nothing makes sense.
I still think the button should not be 1-button macro. It should reduce your bars to 4 core spells and hide the rest from view.
Of course not.
But that doesn’t matter. This is not an addon.
Try it before you bash it. 
Fair enough. Then we’ll have to agree to disagree.
Don’t like it; don’t use it.
Its in their interview. They are directly mentioning Hekili Addon and want to implement that in the game. Its literally what they said.
So yeah… try it before you “praise it?” I guess…
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/hekili
Here it is. Try it. 
I’m not praising it.
I’m saying there is more than ‘just 2 options’.
I’m not making any sort of judgement call, just stating facts.
And I am telling you, the rotation assist is not an option. You still have to play piano at 90 APM. I like that. But I understand those that do not.
And having a functionality that barrages you with blinking lights telling you what button you have to press, out of the 40 you have, most of which are blinking already, at 90APM is not an “option”.
I know. Because I have seen what those addons do. I tested them.
If you think this will help anyone… lets agree to disagree…
And if blizzard goes forward with this, FINE. But I want that functionality to be toggled off in group content. Using an option that will deliberately reduce your performance significantly is a lack of respect to the other 4 people present there.
I have nothing against “new players” trying their best in a key, and I encourage that. I do have a problem with lazy entitled people using a 1-button macro. Even if the results are the same.