I am reminded of a thread you made a while back: So, they are hiring
Maybe the goal of Dragonflight is to be an inoffensive expansion running on the fumes of the creative whims of the previous writers with the purpose of buying time for new (and hopefully better) writers to repopulate Azeroth with new characters and conflicts.
The datamined dialogue is vague enough that it could suggest a time-skip or simply refer to the time we spent in Shadowlands. This may give the new writers some creative wiggle-room as well. I’m… not as optimistic as I may sound, but the idea of a renewed Azeroth is more appealing than going on some cosmic journey.