The update removed my symlink folders so i had 0 addons. Had to delete the interface folder and recreate the symlink.
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I recreated the symlinks yesterday, everything came back, no big deal. Today I logged on and they were gone AGAIN. Is this going to be an every-day thing??
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After some testing, this is actually a problem with Twitch/Curse client, not 8.2.5.
so basically, Curse the Twitch client 
Every couple years those clients seem to have disastrous problems. I refuse to use them.
It is not twitch client, I have a computer without twitch installed it does it to.
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Happened at least 4 times this patch, and on multiple systems. Annoying as hell.
It has nothing to do with Twitch - I see immediately after Battle . net does an update, the directories were deleted and recreated. I have to delete them and setup new symbolic links.
Same. I made a batch file I run as admin, but still annoying AF now.
Can you post that batch file? It is now a continual thing I have to do daily.
Has nothing to do with Twitch, as was posted. Some of us have used symbolic links to move the WTF and AddOn folders into a cloud service, such as Dropbox, which then means WoW installed on multiple systems will be 100% up to date when you go to play (including per-character screen layout, chat size changes, etc.)
Since those folders can be over a GB of data, it’s a big save for people with multiple systems. It has been a great remedy to the aging WoW game that does not deal well with multiple systems.
I just manually download my addons.
Never trusted twitch or curse to do them for me.
Wouldn’t trust cloud services either. Flash drives (copy/paste to and from) and WinRAR comes to mind.
Yeah:
mklink /D "h:\WoW\_retail_\Interface" "h:\Dropbox\WoW Live\Interface"
mklink /D "h:\WoW\_retail_\WTF\Account" "h:\Dropbox\WoW Live\Account"
Just edit that to your directories. If you do screenshots or logs add. If you do your entire WTF folder (I like different WTF config files depending on computer), etc, change. Save as a .bat file
Run as admin.
You could also put this first to remove any folders if they exist:
rmdir "h:\WoW\_retail_\Interface\AddOns" /S /Q
rmdir "h:\WoW\_retail_\WTF\Account" /S /Q
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if I quit and re-open Twitch client, it breaks my addons, but repreatedly quitting/opening Battle net is fine, ymmv
It’s not twitch. If you find my other post in tech support, blue’s have responded recognizing the problem and a fix is in the works. It’s def wow/bnet (1 or the other or both) not twitch.