Even Lovecraft was pretty hit and miss at writing good “lovecraftian horror”. A couple of his works are real good and then there’s a bunch of stuff about seeing a scary italian or the character fearing he might secretly be welsh or something. Even just in his cosmic stuff a bunch of them aren’t really that great at all.
He’s an interesting character but outside of a couple of short stories his influence is really more the bunch of people who nicked ideas from him much later than anything he actually wrote.
Some of that is just kind of funny in his weird hangups. Sometimes, the true nightmare of the story is the horrors of miscegenation via fish-man metaphors, other times it’s as subtle as the english noble finding out that his great great great grandmother was an african ape-princess and commiting suicide in despair.
Certainly a man of his time in the way certain Gamers are into 18th century phrenology.
Maybe the Old Gods and Void will be culled from the lore next to wipe the slate and sever this association from the Warcraft lore?