Part of the problem goes back to what someone else said which is that they aren’t using the content from the past. Why is it relevant? Because if they actually go to the beginning and work out the bugs and find a way to fix even 75% of them before touching TWW it’d be a year at minimum of no new content, which the vast majority of players would pull their subs the second that the announcement is made (look at Shadowlands and WoD as to what would happen in a drought, especially one publicly announced). Even if it went well and got to TWW, the second a new patch comes in, it’ll break something else and thus the counter starts climbing again. The next expansion comes and it’s just piled onto the rest, bug after bug comes out and we’d need another hiatus to get them all tweaked back into place and by then it’s far too late. WoW’s purpose to the company is consistent cashflow, if that gets reduced, it’s bad. If extra cash flows in, they are happy. Maintenance mode wouldn’t solve this at all even if they were able to do it while we played unless they already had them tweaked and ready to go and it just took a week to implement it all. I pay for a year sub and I can guarantee if I saw an announcement that delayed the expansion by a year, i’d unsub instantly and just wait it out in the mean time. I pay to play the game, but if the game is broken then I shouldn’t be paying