Imo, the spit whiners are the ones even basic lua macros escape them. or just too lazy to do it. Some of the finest pvp trolls I’ve seen…I go well at least they put time into a macro, there is a cool point for them.
Asmongold’s harassment campaign didn’t help, but folks were using it for other reasons as well. There were several different addons that folks were using that automatically spat at people at random, and a lot of them also coughed on people.
Remember that this happened during the Covid-pandemic. Asmongold used it to promote harassment, whereas others were using it as a way to try to bring Covid into WoW. Then on top of that it was primarily used by immature PvP-players who spammed it endlessly in PvP as a way to piss off people.
The emote has virtually zero reasons to exist, and people kept adding more reasons for it to not exist. That’s why it was removed.
Well, here’s the thing. You don’t speak for everyone. I mean, I get why someone such as yourself may believe you do, but the reality of the situation is that this is not the case.