How can you stop caring about it?
There’s like eighty pop culture references in that zone, most of which were dated upon arrival!
What’s not to love?
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would sigh deeply, say ‘cataclysm’, and leave
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Stopped mattering to the hero perhaps, and that was mainly due to our freaky broken shaman friend giving us underwater powers. Everyone else seemed to get their 
pushed in by the naga. The zone (before the dungeon, and arguably after with the squid yoinking Neptulon) ends with the naga succeeding to some degree. It’s also the only zone I’ve ever actually felt trapped in and when you surfaced for the first time to make contact with your faction about halfway through, it felt amazing to breach the surface and realize you are actually in the middle of the vast open waters.
Could do without the memes though.
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which then proceeded to… be… forgotten??
no, seriously. What happened. Did they have tea and call it a day? What the hell.
Yeah but in this case I’m talking about appeal to the hero AKA the player, I get that in the lore it’s still an issue but ultimately as a player you experience it exactly once and that’s it, done.
when they meant ‘deathwing would break the world’ i did not think what it’d actually mean 
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they decided ‘nah, let’s not do a raid, actually’
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Ugh.
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Already done in BfA, half-cheeked as a static vessel with a WoD mission table, occasionally used to bring you to inland bases. Your trophies are below deck, filling up a tiny room accordingly as you finish campaign questlines. It’s easy to miss that one.
Dangit, even MoP had a naval battle.
Accurate. Neptulon was taken (Ozumat drinks him, lord of water lol) and supposed to be a captive of the naga but they cancelled that raid and forgot about him. Confronted at blizzcon about it, little came of it until Legion where he’s back and strong in the Shaman storyline, having gotten loose at some point as the handwaved excuse stated, letting him say it in person.
Wait, what?
Check it out. It’s the room with Brann for Alliance. Not sure where the horde stuff is but they do get Voss below deck tutoring the woman she killed on how great it is to be dead and free.
Ah yes, Voss, the undead with a long history of loving necromancy and being a real team player.
I’ll check it out later today, never once seen it.
Her inconsistent personality and bizzarely mentoring the woman she killed with a bomb, who is then visibly groomed to despise the living as she “can’t go back”, the Horde is her only home and her collegues deserve death is a standing frustration of mine.
This in the same story beat of Voss setting up Calia as the compassionate forsaken (leader) they need, who wants them to have hope and not be the Forsaken of Cata to BfA plotting to exterminate humanity to free them.
Hell, Voss even says all the humans deserve death because they’re reminded of mortality in seeing the undead. Yeah, I don’t have a lot of hope for future forsaken writing.
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Truly forsaken as written by someone that only knows they’re undead humans
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Voss gaslighting a woman she murdered into thinking that being murdered and fighting against her own nation is the right thing to do is one of the more low key ultra messed up things in BfA. And the writers are trying to portray Voss as some sort of shining beacon of morality by doing this.
(Nathanos and Voss also sent another newly raised forsaken on a suicide mission, which the Kul Tirans even offered to return alive but Nathanos and Voss denied and watched him have his neck snapped by Kul Tirans instead so I guess she’s just really choosy about who gets to be a special forsaken)
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It’s genuinely weird and unsettling how it plays out. Her scattered state of mind canonizes the previous quote that the newly risen are often confused in a maddened state and Voss has you gather herbs to even her out. So, we have established that there are expected complications with undeath, ways to treat it and a responsibility to guide the newly risen. But of course standard procedure seems to be herding/conditioning the fresh zombie into hating and killing their former allies and accept it as the Only Way.
It’s just really messed up and goes completely contrary toward humanizing them. That’s the point, though? We’re shown that Sylvanas’ demand for ideological conformity and wiping out any hope of an alternative to her absolute rule is seeded deeply early on to the point where people who don’t even follow her will manipulate the newbies into serving the cause.
So what are they without their queen and her culture of fear and loathing toward the living? Calia can’t just flip a switch and change all that they’ve been made to be.
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Earlier than I expected, I was expecting it to be released closer to Endwalker. Maybe that’s when the Legion timewalking will drop instead. I guess now we can all start speculating on the next patch instead. Here’s my assumptions:
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Another Timeless Isle styled zone that’s somehow worse than the last.
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40 new renown levels.
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Sylvanas redemption arc
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A raid which will be the only well received part of the patch
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Ranger’s Scorn Mythic+ affix which is as annoying as possible. (You deserve it for not simping for Sylvanas.)
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Netherlight Crucible 2.
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T. O. K. Ticker which allows you to record and share small clips of your character while also sending your character’s data to Mogu.
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Eluvanas needs no redemption. A goddess is beyond mortal morality 
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By which you mean “Sylvanas avoids any and all comeuppance for poorly explained reasons but the full story is in the book.”
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Just stop it! You’re a monster.