Game is ded
The idea that Shadowlands, however, is to blame is ridiculous. The majority of WoW players are very casual, and there is nothing for them to do in Dragonflight. They even REDUCED the amount of WQs you can do. Blizzard were convinced that M+ and raids were good enough to carry the entire game. Why they would be crazy enough to think this, when SC2 has for over a decade shown Blizzard that ppl just don´t want to be seriously challenged is beyond me.
Asmon does not even play the game anymore. The last times he streamed WoW this year he would play complain that the game was way too hard, needlessly convoluted and that it was impossible to get new ppl into the game. He talked about this issue for like 3-4 years, sadly Blizzard decided to listen to RWF and M+ pushers instead.
Blizzard have basically been giving content creators free money with all the twitch drop stuff, so don´t expect them to bite the hand that feeds them. Especially during this economy (and falling WoW interest / viewership).
Many content creators basically asked for this kind of Raid / M+ and die expansion. makes sense since most of them started rising to prominence during the Panda era of WoW (raid or die), and have still not managed to accept how much of a massive fiasco that expansion was. You hear how WoW could never survive 3 bad expansions in a row. Truth is, looking at the numbers, Cata, Panda and WoD were all failures. So that isn´t true.
Accepting that treating casual players like neutered cattle was a bad idea would mean having to admit that they were wrong. Which they would never do, since they entire shtick is being self-proclaimed WoW experts.