He was advisor to Garrosh at the behest of Thrall, until Garrosh started going down the big-bad-boss path, to which Saurfang joined the revolution and was at Thralls side for its entirety, even going as far as testifying against him using all that experience. You’re a fool if you genuinely think he was all in on the Garrosh craze, or simply skipped WotLK and MoP entirely.
Saurfang is the plot device for the honourable old Horde, versus a Warchief who has proclaimed to have no care for Honour whatsoever, as evidenced by dialogue and her actions. I’m still waiting for that nice list of honourable deeds the Warchief has done. Even if you could throw some together, they are off-set by the dishonourable, and any mention of traitor simply needs a reference to the countless times she has done worse in the past.
Except they are. Half of the strife of the story was actually based on it before the expansion even went underway, and is littered through all of the cinematics and written story. The funny thing is that you’re twisting them to represent a ‘traitor’ instead, whilst never actually mentioning Sylvanas actions at all, and completely ignoring the things that instigate those reactions.
Aaaand more twisting that ignores what has already been presented, that is immediately obvious to anyone who has been following the story and cinematics.
War was barely even mentioned. The only constant between the two in that cinematic was Sylvanas, not the war nor co-operation. Feel free to re-watch it. This has already been explained and doesn’t need to be debunked again. If you want to brand being let free after yet another suicide attempt as ‘working with the enemy’, then I really don’t know what to say. This is worse than the people branding Baine a traitor for having peaceable contact with Anduin in the past. Now you can’t even be let out of their prison on the basis of being a reputable, honourable Orc without now instantly being branded an Alliance sympathizer or spy, despite no mention or even a HINT that they would be co-operating, outside of the fact they both oppose Sylvanas.
Sylvanas was there at the time. Sylvanas saw he was struggling with his honour. She walked off anyway rather than doing it herself. Better blame the one with a morality issue compared to the instigator of the whole plan diverging the task at the last moment to someone she would have known was in doubt. Smart.
Is Saurfang the Warchief of the Horde and the one pushing such a plan forward? Nope. Once again, ignoring Sylvanas in all of these twisty points.
Right. It clearly has nothing to do with almost ALL Horde representatives getting dishevelled by Sylvanas’ decisions as Warchief. Better blame Saurfang and keep ignoring Sylvanas actions.
Yes, let’s ignore the part where she dismisses honour, encouraged him to die (which he complied with, except they didn’t finish him), told the rest that if they cared about him, they could go and join him in death for all she cared, then actively sought his assassination - and the assassination of someone who wasn’t even part of any of the BFA story - because why not? All after having blighted and raised their own troops - something even Garrosh opposed - having instigated this war in the first place, holding absolutely no council like any past iteration of the Horde has, all while going against her own mantra since Banshee Queen day 1 and slaying her own kind for the sake of self-preservation.
You can keep going on and on about Saurfang being the bad one all you like - but as long as you keep neglecting the story, what is instigating these responses, why it is making characters do these things, then you’ll prove nothing other than you are either trying to troll, trying to low-key defend Sylvanas, or that you’re just not paying any kind of attention.