Ridiculous statement.
Lecturing us about not having proof that dragon riding is disliked is projection i.e. identifying the flaws with your own argument and projecting it onto the opposing side in the hopes that it deflects scrutiny from yours. Extremely dishonest.
There is little evidence that there’s any significant backlash against dragonriding. It’s basically a few obsessive weirdos on general discussion. It generally gets positive reception. For every thread you find about people complaining about dragonriding, I can just find one like the opposite:
https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/11az1va/to_everyone_who_said_at_dfs_launch_ok/
https://old.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/z80uby/dragonriding_is_the_biggest_w_in_wow_in_a_long/
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/dragon-riding-everywhere/1435202/2
(last one OP was against dragon riding but most of the posters and poll results were for it)
Again, it’s only really obsessive cliques on the official general discussion forums that hate it and helicopter hover over every thread/spam new topics against it. This forum tends to attract a type of player that’s extremely resistant to any sort of change. A lot of these same people also went ballistic over the new Dragonflight UI which is an objective improvement over the old one. Don’t pretend forum posts are a good barometer here. It’s skewed towards critical opinions in the first place (because people who are angry are more likely to post than people who are happy) and it’s not like you’ve personally counted all the for v.s. against posts.
Outside of this bubble, Dragon riding is generally a well-received feature. It receives overwhelmingly positive coverage from WoW influencers and Blizzard sees it as such a success that they’re expediting the effort to get dragon riding in all the old continents as well. Compare this to something that was actually extremely controversial and broadly hated i.e. Shadowlands covenants. In that instance it was hard to find any positive coverage at all and within a few months they were compromising to the critics.