Sorry but if it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck and looks like a duck…
I call what I see gal… that comment is worthy of one of the dozen of GD threads, not here.
Look at the positives. They caved yes, but did it in the less harmful and most balanced way -caving to the Helfers whining proper would had been Velves getting the Belf skintones 2 months after launch while Belves STILL didn´t get blue eyes nor beards - and excused with the usual “buut, buut!! we already worked on Belves, maybe later” BS M.O. of the devs.
FYI, Alliance Helf NPCs in Vanilla ARE a retconn. Yours made even less sense.
Nooope Zerde, with the way devs acted regarding this? I´m even more convinced Silvermoon will NEVER be updated and will permanently be part of the Belf exclusive stuff.
This customization basically satisfies most of the customers asking for a “playable Helf avatar” (making your already dwindling muh WC2 Quel´thalas qq group smaller) with literal ZERO lore modifications. They didn´t took stuff from us just to give it to you, just shared it.
And a skin color is quite less troublesome lorewise than a city.