There are many Talent Trees, that have covenant abilities baked into the general tree. I do think, that it’s fine, but I’d really like it, if the visuals/name/etc get changed to fit our class theme, and have nothing to do with covenants.
I’m going as far as saying, that having a fairie dust ability as the last row with the biggest animation is making it very likely, that I quit. For me, it’s more important than any gameplay aspects. I alrdy unsubbed, and it runs out in 5 days. I may resub halfway through dragonflight potentially to try it for a month maybe
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Now look at that, just wanted to open a thread about the very same thing and then it showed my one already existed… even if sadly ignored. Let me correct this.
So, yes, that’s exactly what I wanted to suggest. I’m already not happy about the amount and choice of covenant abilities that will stay with us (DH Hunt is of course a must have, but I’d have prefered Swarming Mists, the Venthyr ability, for my DK over the Necrolord limb - especially in blood spec) … so, what I’d really hope for is that at least the visuals (if not even the names) get “tuned” to fit in with our class fantasy.
I love The Hunt as DH ability, but sprouting faerie wings outside of the Shadowlands will look utterly ridiculous (it already does, but…) and it’s also immersion breaking for all those who RP their characters as one who has never gone to the Shadowlands.
Please devs, if you read this, at least consider to update the Covenant abilitiy visuals for Dragonflight… even if it’s just the color… (although having demon wings for the Hunt instead of faerie wings would be even better, but it would already help if the latter were fel green instead of Ardenweald blue).
Same goes for all other classes and abilities…! 
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I would miss chain harvest most!
the coven ablityes will not work in dragonflight zones but it is odd becurse it works in old content zones
Those which are included in the new talent trees will and those are the ones that worry me. 
It only makes sense post-Shadowlands that various if not all classes remember the gift bestowed upon them by the Covenant leaders and made it their own. No reason to have it be forgotten.
The Hunt would look amazing being wrapped in fel instead of faerie as some of the abilities would indeed look very out of place outside of the Shadowlands.
Its gonna be interesting to see certain classes and specs who do no damage at the moment even with proper covenants,being forced to pick useless offspec covenant ability vs classes/specs that have BIS covenant ability in their talent tree.
Ive just realised that despite playing a DK for a few months each patch i have no idea what the necrolord ability is called other than “slappy hands”
I don’t think they’d do that, the way I understand it is that the covenant abilities on the trees are supposed to be those same abilities, making the once borrowed power now permanent.
I’m assuming it’s to open the possibility of being gifted skills/talents through quests later down the line.
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If that’s the case, I don’t wanna keep playing wow. I dislike the lore of shadowlands. I don’t want my spec to have its biggest ability be nightfae themed
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I mean, if one ability is enough to make you quit then that’s your choice 
Class fantasy is imo the most important aspect of wow. If that’s gone, I don’t wanna play. I care about lore/fantasy way more than about gameplay tbh, even tho I mainly do m+, etc
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I agree with it when they put into talent trees, and also SL legendaries when could be put as talent trees too, or we might get aspect powers
Idk, if I get fairie dust shifting power in my talent tree in dragonflight, I simply do not wanna play wow anymore
I share that view, but quitting over one ability because of what it looks like… maybe just don’t spec into that ability if it puts you off so much?
Also I don’t think night fae magic is too out of place for a mage
Ah, so what is arcanic about fairie dust? Arcane would corrupt the fairies. I’m not a druid. I don’t want my special last row ability with the biggest animation be a fairie dust spell. And yes, I quit over this more likely than I quit over gameplay, since the main reason I play wow isn’t gameplay. It’s having one char, that I go on a journed with
I don’t think it’s literally this, but instead the handling of the Covenant abilities in the talent tree are a sort of… road map to the future.
Class fantasy is one of the things that made WoW great and Legion did it very well with the Order Halls and Artefact Weapons, but if things are now going to be like this: our characters learning generic spells that don’t have much to do with their class anymore (and that aren’t just there for an expansion, but “for ever”) but instead with an outdated “power faction” this would be a very sad development.
The problem with this is that the Covenant Abilities let us use the power of the covenant, through our membership - it’s not our own or power or that of the class. After SL, the connection to the shadowlands will be severed and this power should be lost.
Yes, the classes can learn from their experience… and come up with their own way to do similar spells. But it makes no sense for a priest who has never been to the shadowlands to throw around a red Venthyr spell (mindgames), which doesn’t fit in with their usually light or void colored toolkit. They don’t have the Venthyr’s power, if anything, the spell should be void colored in DF and onward.
Also, having something like an “Elysian Decree” for a DH spell just doesn’t fit. They don’t have anything to do with some “heavenly” powers. It should be an “Illidari Decree” or a “Stormrage Decree”. See what I mean?
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I agree with OP but I also want to say that I don’t like the feral covenant abilities - any of them - and I want them gone.
I agree with the first paragraph. I’ve said it numerous times. It was alright in SL, but it’s gonna look completely out of place in DF.
Although, one thing I’ve noticed is that the covenant abilities seem visually on par with Evoker’s spells.
Maybe, just maybe, they rather plan a bigger update to the visuals of our old spell kit in the future.
Lol, ok.
“Do what I say, or I quit” threat aside, I agree with you that I would like Shadowlands lore to remain in Shadowlands and not become baseline in other expansions that have nothing to do with it.