what do you mean ‘whatever’ , Blizzard has total control over if an addon will work or not, that has always been the case.
You act as if addons do what a bot does, and if one did, Blizzard has broken it. If you use an addon you still have to do something, it will not do it for you, if it wasn’t the case we would all have tied Method for world first.
On your last point though, they may be actually something that some people could do in the case, but I honestly do not know.
They broke the threat meter because it was involved with something else that they had to remove. One could remake it but it would not be close to accurate.
The skeleton path from badlands to the entrance of MC. I remember having to go in as a 40 man group from the flight master to instance on Scilla and dragonmaw because guilds would gather up to mess up other guilds raid start times.
Personally I don’t like this stance. Not the addon per se, but the fact that Blizzard is trying to control how players should socialize in-game and limiting their options to do so.
I can understand blocking addons that automate player input, like the old decursive. But blocking a LFG tool? Why are we letting some players decide how everyone else should behave in Classic, even moreso when this behavior is essentially invisible?
We used to have debates like this back in vanilla about how Raid UI addons should be banned because a few players couldn’t take the performance hit of installing said addons and they felt mandatory to enter a raiding guild. This topic feels just as frivolous as those old UI debates…
If I had a dollar for the number of times I had conversations and made friends with other players in a group as we waited to fill it out with a healer or tank… while we typed LFM over and over… If you don’t get it, you just don’t get it. There are some in here that I think just aren’t going to like the classic experience because of the way they’re already second-guessing everything and want more QoL changes, and I hate to say it, but I think they should just stick to retail.