I can understand being skeptical. I am too. I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again.
If there’s not going to be regular hair styles and colors they’re not doing themselves any favors in ending the High Elf requests. In fact it may actually make it worse in some sense. It’ll be another case of “so close but so far” the same way the Original Velves were. While the Skin tones and eye colors are nice, i don’t see it being enough to satisfy the Pro Helf crowd. People are going to keep requesting High Elves.
Even with no Paladins or Druids & Shamans i think they can satisfy the majority (or a large chunk anyway) of the Pro Helf crowd if they just deliver on the visual aesthetics. Even with basic things such as hair style/color and potentially a toggle/customiztion for EE you can still have the standard High Elf fantasy of Magi and Rangers.