It is hopefully still undecided, like alot of things involving gearing systems in Shadowlands. It’s easy to be cynical, i know, but instead try to give constructive feedback.
Though it doesn’t seem the bulk of the community really cares about this issue unfortunately.
Example: My latest post…
…which didn’t seem to get much attention, despite being probably the least garbage thing on this forum in terms of logical reasoning and writing structure. Real well-worded and actually constructive feedback, just ignored.
It’s just an unfortunate truth that the bulk of the playbase only cares about PvE and unimportant things like lore and cosmetics.
Additional note: It’s also an unfortunate truth that the game has almost always been mostly focused on PvE. In Vanilla (now Classic) if you didn’t Raid, you were crushed before you could ever touch a single piece of PvP gear. Then when you finally got the required Honor rank, the gear may have been garbage for your spec. Alot of BiS gear for PvP came from PvE.