No you don’t. Delaryn is the last to be raised, and doesn’t give any quests to the Horde players.
Then it’s probably Sira… it’s been a rather long while.
Sira is raised at the same time as Delaryn, and is not involved in raising any other Night Elves.
There’s also such a thing as piling on, aka the last straw. Also, many of the current night elf population are probably young enough to have been born after the other atrocities in night elf history - but this doesn’t apply to Tyrande or Sira specifically.
Well when asked why undead don’t remember what happened to them after death and before being raised (especially someone dead 20+ years before being raised like Derek), the writers’ answer was ‘once raised you have zero memory of your time in the shadowlands’, so Delaryn and Sira shouldn’t remember the Maw.
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At the time that Sylvanas (the Valkyr) raises them she is already empowered by the Jailer. It could be that this is a specific carve-out to the rules.
The rules are made-up and the points don’t matter basically.
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Part of me always enjoys seeing new writers try and retcon a characters’ backstory or something simply because they do not like the current one, or they feel the vague original one was better. And they want their own take on it to be canon. Only to miss out an important detail and have to explain on the seat of their pants why that detail doesn’t make a big plot hole in the newly retconned story.
For example, Kevin Levins backstory from Ben 10. An episode of Alien Force makes the retconned backstory from Omniverse into question. And the answer why it isn’t a big deal was not fulfilling. What they said just made even more questions. Questions they didn’t want to answer because they didn’t have any. Basically they said that the antagonist in that episode of Alien Force was in on the whole altered memories conspiracy the Rooters did. But what role they served was never explained in that answer.
Ultimately this is the problem with retcons. Sometimes you have writers that are emotionally invested into the retcon so much that they fail to account for every detail. No matter how small or big. We have seen this with Zovaal and his role with the Lich King and Kel’thuzad.
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Point was neither Delaryn nor Sira have mentioned witnessing the Maw.
And that’s still not even all the WoW examples. The blue dragonflight got quite a few retcons even in Warcraft 3. Illidan’s story got retconned twice to try and make him look good. And we all know how much Sylvanas’ story has been turned inside-out and upside down to protect that character. I’m pretty sure there’s even a couple of retcons in Garrosh’s lore too.
And, as you said, sometimes the writers are so emotionally invested in the retcon - or the character getting their lore retconned - they fail to account for all the details (character-wise Sylvanas, Zovaal and Illidan are the worst offenders).