There’s also what looks like a possible lack of new art assets. I think a lot of people at this point are just jaded on new Retail WoW content and are ready to dunk on anything that comes out no matter what it is, though.
It’s kind of the same thing that seems to be going on with Bethesda Game Studios titles as well. People are just in the mindset that anything new from them is going to be trash. Just watch, about half the internet right now is going on about how Starfield is the worst BGS game yet, but as soon as Elder Scrolls 6 comes out, ES6 is going to get dunked on and probably review bombed to near zero and Starfield is now somehow a masterpiece or something.
We’ve got people now trying to argue about how Shadowlands was somehow a better expansion than Dragonflight.
To me it looked like it was just some fake AI made thing, but if it turns out to be real I’ll be very disappointed as it looks even more meh than dragonflight is.
Avaloren is actually mentioned in game. Players can loot a book in Uldaman: Legacy of Tyr that describes Avaloren being a place where a group of “heretic” Earthen are located that continue to resist Prime Keeper Odyn’s decrees.