If someone was advocating for essentially unchanged Night Elves to be a Horde AR I’d flip out, instantly. And no, a stance change, contact lenses, and some tats wouldn’t appease me even a little bit.
I expect many people who play Dwarves, Humans, Worgens, or Gnomes would react similarly.
I’m not a Blood Elf player. I have exactly one, a 58 Belf DK who never got past that, on a server I never even log into. But I do see their point.