So I’ve been investing a lot of time thinking about shadowlands the past few days, mainly because I bought it and it’s interesting to follow. To me it’s insane to see the viewer drop off on twitch. I feel like… this was the “last chance” expansion for a lot of people, again. I almost think the people praising it as the best expansion ever is jarring because so many people don’t like it, so they feel alienated by a lot of streamers and general forums praising it. With legion, most people agreed it was good at first, even the haters. Most people agreed bfa was bad. So if you were someone that didn’t like what blizzard was doing, you still felt like the community sentiment made sense overall and you felt in sync.
I feel like with this expansion a lot of people praising this expansion as good will make many people just leave in indifference and they won’t come back. In fact, I’d say this expansion just creates a feeling of indifference in me - there is nothing to hate or love about it. It’s something where I want to just not care about it.