I’ve had a search and seems always to have been a problem. This thread’s from 2016 - https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20743404386
The only thing I can suggest that you make a suggestion on the ingame form explaining why it should be removed and that it ruins RP in the zone. Personally I’d also make an ingame bug report in case it’s just that someone’s forgotten this is a thing.
Ah… So the only alternative is to not start Stonetalon as a horde toon then…
Because Blizz rarely bothers fixing anything if it isn’t gamebreaking.
I assume it’s such an easy fix, too. They should definitely do it.
In general they did a pretty bad job with the end of some of the old world Cata storylines. As if they ran out of time. Westfall is pretty bad, too with Sentinel Hill left in the burning phase. Even just rolling back to the initial phase would be okay compared to what we have.