I’ll team up with you for gnome DHs if you back me on Tauren ones too
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It’s a simple matter of wanting to play the groups of elves we work in the alliance as opposed to horde elves that got kicked out for mating with squids.
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That’s a swell opinion, and i’m happy that happened for you.
It’s time to give the Alliance High Elves a turn, the ones that continue to exist and appear in game and don’t belong and interact with the Horde. 
WoW is allowed to be it’s own separate story, your obsession with clinging to the past does not make a future High Elf story impossible, regardless of similarity.
I don’t sit on my Night Elf at Mount Hyjal thinking “Wow, remember when we killed Archimonde, geez that was cool.”
I play the story because it progresses and creates “a new”, and i can’t wait for that to happen to High Elves.
It’s not an ultra-specific complaint if that’s the main argument many antis are using, being “high elves are blood elves”.
That doesn’t seem to be the case with you though, since you’re more driven by your feelings towards high elves and the bad stuff they’ve done in the lore. But then again, that brings me back to questioning why that drives you to deny fans from playing a race they like. Does it make you unhappy seeing others play a race you don’t like?
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The solution then is to simply remove all the contrast from their monitors display settings and play either of the two alliance elves and call themselves a high elf.
Saves everyone a lot of time and trouble.
Illidan is for sure coming back, so done and done.
My arguement is two fold; first that their are already too many elves with too little distinction between them and second that this is a decision that was made over a decade ago and people need to get over it.
Why? They’re mainly there to be antagonists to the Blood elves.
I’d say championing high elves on the alliance is a lot more clinging to the past than wanting the blood elf story to progress as it’s own thing without having to worry about how it effects another playable race.
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There is some incredible projection on this dude’s part with his talk about clinging to the past while advocating for high elves to be a thing.
That’s more the cherry on top. There’s more than one reason.
Not really sure where you’re going with that, but I don’t think you’d like it if I posed a question like it to you.
This is just a framing thing…
Why would you deny fans of Blood Elves the exclusivity of their aesthetic?
Why would you deny fans of the Alliance a diverse race option, different from the human equivalents that already dominate their choices?
Why would you deny fans of a high elf unification story line their possibility of seeing it realized?
…that formula can work on any number of things.
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And how is that not a fascinating story to expand and explore?
Along with many others.
You’re allowed to not like High Elves, that doesn’t mean a part of WoWs story doesn’t get to be expanded Tarrok.
The thing is that, past your personal bias, it doesn’t, it expands it even more, because like i mentioned, stories move forward.
Blood Elves and High Elves can both exist, have separate stories, and still not affect each others, just like literally Alliance Blood Elves didn’t destroy your story now. Just because you can’t imagine it, doesn’t mean it can’t.
Because all you continue to look at is how this affects, “Me personally”
As opposed to the selfless desire for alliance high elves?
Yes, because Alliance High Elves have not already destroyed the Blood Elf story, and literal Alliance Blood Elves have not already destroyed the Blood Elf story.
8 expansions and counting Tarrok, still waiting for Silvermoon to catch fire cause other Elves besides Blood Elves exist.
Yep, 8 expansions where the fact that all those unaffiliated and alliance leaning high elves are solely npcs and it hasn’t destroyed the Alliance story in any way.
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That’s essentially just saying “Too many elves”. There’s no discussion that can be built off of that.
I agree with the sentiment that there are too many elves, but I also realize that a lot of people would like to play high elves (the ones that aren’t blood elves), and since played race has no effect on me, I choose to support them since it would just make people happier, and would have no effect on anyone since the race someone plays is not a gameplay affecting factor.
On telling people to “get over it”, we were told to get over it with vanilla servers and flying too. Get over it doesn’t go very well, and if you’re annoyed with the topic, you can choose to ignore it instead of telling people to get over themselves…
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Obviously, they’re apart of the Alliance, why would they lol.
We would like them to be playable, because like you agree, they haven’t destroyed the Blood elf story.
So all in all, it is just a personal bias. huh?
No they haven’t. So why risk doing that by making them playable and changing their dynamic from being antagonists to the blood elves to being a playable race on the other side that needs more from the story than to be the bad guys for blood elves?
Because it hasn’t already, why would making them playable do that now, Tarrok.
It won’t Tarrok.
Void Elves didn’t and those are your actual Blood Elves Tarrok.
You’re allowed to disagree, Tarrok.
Don’t pretend your doom-saying has valid ground to stand on though, Tarrok.
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Because NPCs are different than Playable race? It’s really not a difficult concept.
You can’t prove that. (and yes, I also know I can’t either.)
Don’t pretend your nakedly greedy justifications has any ground to stand on either.