It’s still insane to me that this was the prepatch event. It was so very blatantly a core part of the expansion that they just stripped out to use as prepatch material because they didn’t have anything else.
MoP did that too, but at least they let you play that content DURING MoP as well, because it was important to the story (as well as just being content, and throwing content away is silly).
BfA just tossed that out the window if you didn’t play during the prepatch.