I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Horde and Alliance both suffered as a result of the faction war. I say this on a Horde character, but sincerely as a factional ambivert. I love both sides and felt both of the pains.
Most Horde players I know HATED being villain batted so hard, because that is not the fantasy of our faction we were introduced to at the game’s inception. Hell, some of the Alliance posters here are ex Horde mains who left for good BECAUSE of the villain batting. So Horde got attention, but in a really toxic way that generally made them feel gross about the Horde, not proud of it.
Most Alliance players I know are sick and tired of being a punching bag only to then be used as a lesson for the one punching them to learn that punching is naughty. The lack of agency or any kind of internal faction plotlines sucks.
One side is dying of starvation, the other is bloated with rotten food and dying of food poisoning. The circumstances suck for both, and Blizzard is to blame for both. Not the players. On either side.