I’ve noticed that Xalatath has control over people and creatures who have been infused with void magic. She’s hampered Alleria a few times from even attempting to attack her and during the quests in Azj-kahet, Y’tekhi becomes an ascended and ends up getting MCed by Xalatath. It sort of makes me suspicious of the Void Elves and how they could be used to cause strife within the Alliance.
Xalatath has already worked her influence on one of them already during the Harbinger questline before TWW started, so the vulnerability is present.
Pure speculation obviously, but the temptation for them to give themselves to the Void entirely does present a threat which isn’t helped by the fact that they are situated in the very heart of the Alliance.
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I think the ascended Nerubians are a special case due to her meddling with The Black Blood. I don’t think her straight up mind controlling them (the Void Elves) is on the table, but she can probably try to mess with them the way she does Alleria.
Less exciting answer is that it probably won’t even come up, unless they fundamentally shift how they are going to explore stories re: factions and races.
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It’d be good plot. Would love to see it for Void Elf characters and Shadow Priests, (my main) but it’ll probably be an NPC thing we’re along for the ride on as “champion”.
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I’m hoping at some point, since it’s link to Dalaran was severed, Netherlight Temple comes back as a plot relevant place (even if it is out somewhere in the Twisting Nether).
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Probably not direct control, but susceptable to Void whispers moreso than other people.
The ones I’m really worried about are the Lightforged. Especially if the speculation that the Lightbound on Draenor are being influenced directly by the “Light Mother” ever comes back around.
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Void elves walk a constant line between resisting the Void constantly whispering in their minds and embracing those whispers. To draw a pop-culture comparison they are just one day away from sprouting tentacles and becoming an eldritch abomination.
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They’ve always been a liability but Blizzard has been too cowardly to depict them as such for some reason.
Like these guys should be so sketchy that they make the Forsaken look aboveboard by comparison. But I guess there was too high of a risk that that would reflect poorly on Anduin and we can’t have that now can we? 
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Huh, giving it more thought now. The Alliance has two allied races that are heavily connected to the Light and Void. It’s a powder keg just waiting to go off with the right meddling from a certain shoeless elf lady.
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Good. Make it so Xal underestimates the void elves and show her that the void elves are not to be triflied with and will resist and even manage to best her.
Or we finally get the proof that mixing those two can be just as much a boon as a danger, which has been implied since WoW Vanilla(disc priest). That finding a balance between the two is important.
One could argue that their attempted mastery of the void should give them a resistance to Xal’atath’s tactics, but who’s to say.
Outside of Alleria’s perspective, not much stock has really gone into showing the drawbacks, weaknesses, or limitations that becoming a Void Elf entails.
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Several player classes and races should logically have been treated as liabilities, but they rarely are. For example:
In addition to the void elves’ exposure to the whispers, warlocks should have really been scrutinized more from the start as potential Legion spies, and even when they weren’t such, there should have been some attention paid to the risk that any one of their demonic minions might be. Instead warlocks are only really treated as untrustworthy for being individually power hungry and unscrupulous.
The worgen have never really been shown having to deal with the hazards of needing to keep a lid on their rage, even though theoretically that’s supposed to still be a thing, and while the Scythe of Elune or alchemical treatment grants them clarity, there’s never been an official acknowledgement that either makes them no longer contagious, so a worgen losing control again could theoretically still start spreading their curse to any susceptible races they attacked and bit in a frenzied state.
Even notwithstanding their own questionable activities and generalized fear of undead, Forsaken should have been more susceptible to fears - among themselves and their living allies - of infiltration, since there’s really no stated reason why anyone should be able to easily recognize a true Forsaken from a Scourge agent or undead Cultist of the Damned with the intellect, savvy and appearance to pass for one. After all, that’s how the Cult infiltrated Lordaeron’s living population in the first place.
These things tend to get glossed over or ignored outright for playable groups, even though they should really be quite logical and serious avenues of concern.
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Aside from the Void being something only the dumbest people on Azeroth try to harness?
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They are on the alliance so no
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The Void Elves are useless.
Umbric failed almost every mission he was given during BFA.
This is actually one of the things that annoy me about Alleria’s story in TWW. Alleria and the void elves really should be the most suited to countering Xal’atath’s mind games. Yet every time she goes near Xal’atath she get hit by a psychic attack and makes not attempt to block, avoid, redirect or reflect it despite knowing how to use void magic herself.
It’s basically the whole “Oh no, the Forsaken used the Blight. Somehow we are completely unprepared for this despite the Forsaken using it at every opportunity. If only we could have known this would happen.” thing from BFA all over again.
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This is not just a void elf issue. Several races have self control problems. Like the Forsaken, the Worgen, even the orcs. They just don’t bother to go into detail with this because, well, not sure why, but I suppose they just don’t want to do the work.
Anyway I wouldn’t expect anything exciting to come out of it. They’ll just say everything is fine and that’s that.
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They probably don’t go into it because all those races are playable. Having sudden loss of control likely wouldn’t be fun for most people
Unless blizz did that strictly with NPC characters, than it probably would work
Kinda like how technically, the world’s shamans were all having problems communicating with the spirits during Cataclysm due to the elements freaking out about Deathwing shattering of the World Pillar and opening Azeroth to the Elemental Plane, but they couldn’t very well make the player shamans’ spells stop working to reflect that.
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Oh I don’t know. Done right it could be very fun.
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Not really. Oh you have a void elf? Good luck on being unable to do anything! Is not a fun concept