It’s a good opinion, and something they could make more use of blood elves and nightborne in the horde…but their refusal to just further confirms these races joining the horde have nothing to do with crafting a different identity for the horde or because of good story progression, they were just popular alliance related groups the horde is given to boost its popularity.
Wanna bet if Suramar hadn’t been so nice, the nightborne would be on the alliance right now. And wanna bet if the horde hadn’t needed it so badly, i don’t even think the blood elves would look as good as they do now, they’d have used the night elf skeleton high/blood elves used in classic before the redesign.
One of my biggest criticsm of the lore team atm, is that they could do a better job of the changes forced on them by the other development and senior team.
If the blood elves have to go horde, then let them be the whiter side of their grey like you said, and make it good use of it, showing a good struggle between descending into despair and recklessness like the palace highborne under Queen Azshara they descend from did, or the nobler group they became under Darth’remar after the exile. Now they have done this to an extent, but the impact on the horde after showing this in TBC, is almost non-existent as you point out.
If the nightborne are going horde, then cut a chunk of them away to be with the night elves even if it means turning that defecting back to their original kaldorei forms (to fit the unique silhouette model rule), but doing this so the importance and significance their return brings to the Kaldorei race isn’t completely lost just because they wanted really fancy night elves prettying up the horde further, that way the horde can have its nightborne and the night elvs can have a story and group that further enhances their restoration arc without breaking anyone. But none of this is explored (or maybe it is coming and we just haven’t seen it yet) - but this is what I mean.
You could easily have the nobility of the shal’dorei present in both the horde and the allaince - on the alliance with the night elves, showing how those from their arcane pre-sundering civilziation can break free from addiction, arrogance and recklessness and fit the pure noble and balanced standard the druids and priests walk, but as mages - and showing a side of the night elf history previously not told, the nobility and balance of the highborne (farondis exemplifies this, but the night elf story has to grow the race naturally as the momentous events Wc3 legion return and 7.0 Legion’s defeat must demand significant changes in view points, operations interaltions reconciling both eras of their past and presenting an opportunity for them coming together.), being the visible in game group that shows this where the shen’dralar for example who’s turn wasn’t shown, but described in the lore books can relate.
Meanwhile those on the horde, while we could have had the more Elisande minded, aggressive conquer the world types, could have had an element that were more Thalyssra minded, aggressive yet noble, having a mixture, that needed work on, sort of like the blood elves were in TBC, having to find their nobility again, and we could have had the role of the blood elves being a sort of moral compass and guide to the more Elisande minded nightborne who’d joined them, and both growing and providing that edge ot the horde. Or the converse occuring, the nobility of the shal’dorei re-awokened during the conflict against the legion plays out, but in a way that makes sense why some Shal’dorei would side with the horde, because given teh importance and way that story went, not all should have done, and if some were going horde, some would have sided with the night elves. This way you protect the integrity of your story while achieving the same result. The result of the senior dev team that the nightborne go horde, but the story made for the night elves not lost, because nightborne also went alliance but they regained their kaldorei appearance,
Providing the senior devs with what they want, but also protecting your story and its integrity.
i mean, maximising the story, makig more of it etc.
However i feel as long as the faction dominates eveyrthing, we aren’t going to see these degrees of nuances… the race has to be prominent first, so it’s perspective is made available, only then would the obvious great nuances and intrigues be seen and brought out.