I’m not sure if i’d go so far as to call him a “traitor”
but an “appeaser” ABSOLOUTELY!!!
i’m also frankly sick of him, i’ve been sick of him since Cata, arguably I was even sick of him before that because I was overjoyed when he stepped down as warchief…
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that he’s “not an orc”… but at the same time he’s like… an orc who is somehow a weeb for orcs… he is almost a parody of orcs (or at least his overly glorified version of them.)
another great example of that type of character would be worf, but specifically his portrayal in DS9. he was arguably the klingoniest klingon to ever klingon, he was so klingon that even other klingons found him insufferable… but thats because he wasn’t raised as a klingon, he was raised on the IDEA of a klingon. raised by humans and his concept of what ment to be a “good klingon” was based entirely on stories, and operas, and epic tales… a fantasy, essentially.
thrall is kinda the same way, he wasn’t raised by orcs, he was raised on the IDEA of orcs (in his case, granted he had kinda the opposite experience, he was raised on the absolute WORST of anti-orc propoganda… but when he finally saw through it, and realized he had been lied too his whole life, he kinda when 110% in the opposite direction.)
Thrall is (or tries to be) far too much of the romanticized, and idealized version of what he thinks orks “should” be… is there some merit in that? maybe… strive to be the change you want to see and all that… but its also COMPLETELY divorced from reality.
(arguably garrosh also suffered from this same issue but in reverse, he saw thralls vision for the orcs and rejected it so thuroughly that he went 110% in the opposite direction, because HIS version of the orcs, wasn’t accurate to who they actually are either. it was his own version of an overly romanticized and glorified orc that never truly existed.)
in short, they are BOTH delusional, but in opposite ways. (and unfortunately the only orc that seems to have struck a beautiful balance between the two, got killed by sylvanas because blizz decided we needed yet ANOTHER major character death to REALLY drive home how super serious for realzies evil sylvanas is now.)