I’m still playing BFA.
But from what I read, I think the dev team focused way too much on trying to delay player progress as much as they could.
That’s probably why I keep reading:
“No respect for player time.”
Here’s an example:
It seems a lot of people preferred the old style of world quests.
You could finish it on the spot as opposed to the new one where you have to go back and forward.
People also miss Azeroth environment as the afterlife seems to be depressing.
If SL is truly worst than BFA in terms of gameplay experience than they surely hit a new low.
I think this reply from the first thread OP linked summarize it better:
"I honestly had some fun memories in BfA. It didn’t really feel like a job to me. Shadowlands feels like one after having to put nearly 8 hrs a day and getting little progress.
But, to be fair, both are bad and probably the worse expansions."
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For me the worst expansion is the one that kills all expansions and that was BFA for me.
That’s why I didn’t purchased SL.
Cheers.