Maybe if he dedicates himself a little more he might become a somewhat decent troll.
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The link was just to the Midnight Alpha forums, but ty for linking it. I took some time to read through some of the Addon feedback and suggestions, and my fears were only confirmed further.
I have a very special aesthetic that eliminates as many unnecessary visual distractions as possible, since I require more necessary information on my screen than most due to my deafness. It’s a very minimalist setup (I don’t show many icons or bars for my spell abilities, instead it’s mostly border highlights and raw numbers). Many of the feedback posts were conveying how they could not get their UI even close to visually similar to their live versions, because of the lack of position, sizing, and color elements. There were so many other missing options listed that would affect me as well, and Midnight is only about 4 months away. What’s worse is that in order to effectively implement some of them, the developers would need to have decent knowledge about certain buffs and how they are properly used (the stack count is more important or the duration is), across all the different specs. These things also change throughout new tiers and expansions, so it will be a constant uphill battle for them to try to keep up with all this, far more so than it would to just focus on raid design encounters with addons in play.
I don’t have access to alpha at the moment, but quite frankly I’ve spent over 10 years improving my UI to the way that helps me play the best, and I’m too tired to start from scratch again with these limited options (which will probably never get back to as good as it was unless Blizzard reverses course). I will likely be among those that choose to stop playing WoW and just check some streams occasionally to see if the UI situation has improved.
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I found it!
If your concern is Accessibility they do have an email for that. The Accessibility team works with all the game teams to help improve features to make games more accessible.
ht tps:/ /us.support.blizzard.com/en/article/244753
From the thread:
ht tps:/ /us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/accessibility-concerns-about-midnight/2178274/8
I also spelled the name wrong… Bad me. lol It’s Mirasol. Oops.
Sorry about the spaces, I’m not allowed to post links apparently. But it’s to forum posts here on the game… /sigh
If you highlight the link and push the </> button, it’ll still post the link. It just won’t be clickable.
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Oh, thanks! I shall do that next time. lol
I get the off game stuff I don’t post all that much. But on game forum threads? lol Ok. 
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Yeah, I have been saying this since Dragon flight became available at level 10 and Normal flight at level 20, even though “normal” flight is in game for “accessibility reasons” according to Ion
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Thanks, I sent them an email today. I don’t expect to see much done about it though.
I read through most of that other forum post as well. Marisol seems pretty level-headed, but do they have any sway with Blizzard’s decisions? Hopefully he/she sees my post though and forwards the messages from it.
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The issue with this is Blizz builds stuff that’s fine for Blizz … but not so fine for the players, who actually want their addons to work. Why reinvent the wheel, tell addon makers what is acceptable and let them keep on with the good work. Ask Bethesda how that works.
I think Blizzard should offer a server where addons are permitted and one where there are not. problem solved
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I was thinking about something like this earlier, mainly in consideration for PvP fairness, since I can see how addons affect that (which is a game mode where people will care about that more). Something like a Plunderstorm split-off for PvPers where most addons are disabled.
But at the same time, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t work. Because history has shown us in the past already that people flock to high populations, and most would probably abandon whichever side is lower, leading to a dead server.
I personally think addons are big part of why WoW has survived this long anyway. Didn’t Skyrim last quite a while partly because people modded it for improvements? I’m not sure about the Fallout scene either, since I only played Fallout 3 briefly.