WoW lore in general is now a retconned pile of bull dropping, so it’s not worth investing in the story at all. It’s just there, a something they slapped on for the sake of it.
We arent lorewise tho. Nobody knows how long we are in the shadowlands for starters and time in the shadowlands flows alot slower compared to outside (even tho that might be halted for the time being because of the sky being ripped open) so in the very least we are inside it for the first tier (WoW time is real time) which should be 4-6months and i suppose we will be inside even during the next tier and probably the one after. Not leaving until pre patch.
This is the biggest flaw imo. Retconning has allowed them to expand the universe and make certain things more coherent, sure, but how can we take the setting seriously when we know that at any point, they can just go “Aw nah that thing didn’t happen after all”?
Imagine being heavily invested into season 1 of a TV show and rooting for a certain character, then in the first episode of season 2, there is a recap where the narrator goes “by the way, this character didn’t do any of the cool stuff you saw, and actually they just sat in the back eating paste. And also the universe is completely different now.”
You pretty much described what they did with ‘Dallas’, where an entire year’s run of the show was retconned as someone who died walked out of the shower, very much alive, and it turned out the entire last series had just been a dream!
No. Humanity’s gift is the ability to make logical conclusions based on prior experiences.
You remind me of these “don’t worry guys, it’s just beta!” folks.