You know if they have Gazlowe sets up a company that is better because it includes everyone as an entrepreneur and not just labor, and proceeds to put everyone else out of business, sure. If he, as Bilgewater leader, just imposes a set of labor laws, then it really is just taking modern human standards and opposing them on another race.
I do think you can make a case that Blizzard has been, intentionally or not, watering down things that makes races unique. And not just Horde races. Opposition to the arcane used to be a principal that made the night Elves who they are, now mostly doesn’t exist.