I mean, I guess that’s one way to look at it. I’ve never thought of the connection between the tauren and the kaldorei as one side “stealing” from the other, though, but rather having a shared history and and a similar theology that, to me, makes the faction divide between them really poignant. They have more in common with each other than they do with their own factions, imo, and seeing them at war kind of breaks my heart.
As for Legion being nelf-heavy, to me as a nelf fan and player it definitely didn’t feel that way. It had stuff about their ancient history from before the Sundering, but really it was about Azshara and the shal’dorei – and Azshara has about much in common with the playable kaldorei race as Trade Prince Gallywix does, and the shal’dorei who wound up joining the Horde. There was stuff about demon hunters, but that’s a shared history about people who are outcast from both their races. And it was about paladins, like, a lot.
The kaldorei this xpac are the focal point insofar as an atrocity committed against them kicked the whole thing off. After that… I mean, sometimes I get to do a quest with Shandris, that’s nice. There are never any kaldorei sailors I can save during that intro to Zuldazar, they’re always already dead. That’s kind of depressing. We provide a lot of cannon fodder. But I don’t really call that “content.” And fighting my former allies who’ve been insta-turned into forsaken in a warfront that is perpetually being lost and won and lost again doesn’t feel like being a “focal point” in any positive way. As Vozul pointed out, most kaldorei content is either them getting beat up or is about ancient history. Literally ancient.
And I mean, every player in WoW can go on at length about how Blizzard has overlooked and kicked around their favorite race. Everyone. And everyone’s justified. Making it into a contest doesn’t do anyone any good. But to me, as a nelf player, all the “overuse” that you see has just been a bait-and-switch for me, where I think I’m going to get awesome content for my awesome favorite race but just get punched again.
I guess I’m feeling some elf fatigue too, but it’s because I keep being disappointed, and that’s wearying.