Between all these “revenge is bad” stories, letting edgier characters escape punishment for their crimes and being contrarians attacking everything even vaguely resembling objective morality in their setting, it feels like Blizzard is saying “justice is bad”.
Think about it, there’s all these stories in Warcraft about people seeking to take down those who’ve wrong them (eg; Genn, Tyrande, many minor characters) where the person seeking to hurt someone who’s done wrong is treated as in the wrong. While there’s a valid point to being against revenge, in a lot of these cases the ones who’ve done wrong that someone else is hunting them down for need to answer for those crimes. For example, Arthas deserved punishment for his crimes, and Garrosh deserved punishment for his.
While forgiveness is good, Blizzard’s use of it in the story is hit and miss, a prime example of this is the Draenei. During Velen and Kil’jaeden’s last meeting in “Legion”, Velen is implied to have forgiven Kil’jaeden, despite Kil’jaeden showing no remorse or desire to atone for his many, many crimes before he dies (not even a “sorry for trying to genocide the Draenei” or a “sorry for what I did to your son” to Velen). On AU Draenor, in WoD, Yrel and the AU Draenei forgave the Orcs of the Iron Horde despite them showing no remorse or desire to atone and no punishments for the Orcs (if the Mag’har recruitment scenario is to be believed). Another example is Garrosh’s trial after Mists of Pandaria; despite showing no remorse for his crimes, doubling down on them and having done plenty to earn execution… SPOILERS, at the end of the book, we learn the August Celestials not only planned to let him off the hook despite all the harm he wrought… they used Garrosh’s trial to test the character of everyone else there; I think everyone there had already proved themselves for better or worse.
There’s a clear pattern of characters being spared the consequences of their actions without having to make it up to their victims or be punished. While there’s many examples, look how often two of Warcraft’s biggest edgelords - Illidan and Sylvanas - keep escaping punishment for their actions.
Illidan keeps being freed, he keeps getting blocked from having others restrain his actions and even his Illidari were freed (while they were fighting the Legion, they’d done alot of harm on the way that earned them punishment). Illidan even killed a naaru in front of a literal army of her followers (there’s a difference between self-defense and excessive force, despite what Illidan fans say) and the only consequence he suffers - if even that - is one of them cutting his hand.
As for Sylvanas, she commits a terrorist attack burning down a city full of people and tons of other war crimes when others have been sentenced to death for less. But Sylvanas not only keeps escaping punishment - especially from past victims of hers, she has thicker plot armor than a 40k space marine special character and the story keeps hinting her actions are justified despite them clearly being for selfish gain.
This all culminates in Shadowlands, where the cosmic justice system for mortals - where all actions are judged after death - is not only broken at the moment, the story keeps suggesting it’s wrong. While Blizzard keeps kicking the can down the road by setting up one question after answering another about the cosmology, the recurring theme is that the way things are doesn’t work, but no one presents a better method.
So between Blizzard’s overused “revenge is bad” stories, letting certain characters get away with their crimes, their pre-WoD aversion to redemption story arcs, making the settings’ final justice system as flawed and broken AND an almost total aversion to anything even vaguely resembling objective morality (the closest I’ve seen to any objective morality is ill-defined allusions to the Seven deadly sins in Revendreth), I think the story is being written to attack the concept of justice and/or being written by people who dislike the concept of justice.
I’m not looking for personal revelations in the story, I’m criticizing its apparent opposition to justice.