That’ s the entire problem. For too long the devs have sat on their hands and done nothing about add-ons, in fact they’ve designed end content with add-ons in mind.
Now all of a sudden some manager in development has decided that add-ons are now to blame for everything and they need to go.
Only problem is. Blizzard’s attempts at making their own ui and combat controls run as smoothly as add-ons have done have turned out to be… Lacking.
I remember the big song and dance when they were loudly telling us how awesome their new UI customisation was.
When it finally arrived, it was absolutely woeful.
I said the exact same thing the day it was brought out as I still say today.
Whoever designed the UI customization very clearly spent 5 minutes on ElvUI playing with basic customization, saw the grid where you could fine tune the bars and “OK that’ll do… That’ll stop players downloading ui add-ons”. They didn’t add any ability to change size of bars, didn’t add any ability adjust the positioning of bars, didn’t add the ability to fully customize the ui, it was a very basic ui modifier that if truth be told they should never have bothered with.
There’s a reason I still use Bartender and ZPerl, because Blizzard’s default UI is absolutely atrocious.
And people really ought to stop believing this crap that add-ons let players sit back and the add-on does everything for them.
It doesn’t. The player still has to physically react to whatever the game is doing, add-on or no add-on.