I honestly would prefer to use the old night elf model, both male and female. The male one is just superior to new one in every possible way in my opinion, from better facial structure to body proportions and animations. Try as I might, I can’t take the male night elf seriously with his current idle stance.
At least they changed that super goofy run animation the male night elf had in 6.0.
Alternatively, they should rework the male night elf model from scratch and give it back the old animations and idle stance, while keeping the updated look.
the option to show old models got removed the moment demonhunters got released because those were tied to both elves we had during that time and came possibly with new animation only working for new models.
I would like to have it back too… used it gladly to see on what model my mog looks better but oh well I marked the day and it was during dh implementation time
iirc Blizz removed it because they believed the old models completely clashed with the higher polygons and texture of the environment of more recent expansions.
the way I see it, they could have made a “COPY” file of original BELF/NELF files and kept them, once u would roll DH the skeleton would automatically swap to the new one