Oh BfA…filled with missed opportunities such as:
-San’layn getting an open invitation to the Horde, only to appear strictly in the Alliance war campaign, treated as a monster-of-the-week to give the Alliance a fist-bump-feel-good moment, and never brought up at all on the Horde side.
-Ogres completely missing the big war against the Alliance despite the Horde having three clans of them within their ranks, one of which joined during BfA, and the MU Stonemaul Clan having assisted in the attack on Theramore and death of Jaina’s father. Yet the Horde, despite needing as many troops as possible, is more concerned with bending time and space to recruit AU Orcs who may or may not be busy with their own problems and just trying to live their lives, assuming they’d be willing to abandon all that to fight in a war in another universe.
-Despite a return to Pandaria, Saurok are relegated back to feral-like status instead of having a tribe that could’ve assisted in the area against N’zoth, and also getting enslaved by one of the evil Mogu clans, where Chen Stormstout is more concerned with his booze being wasted as opposed to considering working on at least freeing them to cause havoc on the Mogu.
-Sethrak, despite playing a decent role for awhile and having gotten their loa back, proceed to take a backseat to the plot and do little of note after we help them.
-Kelfin and Ankoan are more-or-less abandoned after we work with them, with the former hanging out on the shores of Durotar perpetually and not even getting an invitation to Orgrimmar.
-Despite male Dark Rangers being introduced, nothing really is done with them despite some Dark Rangers in general still being loyal to the Horde and then proceed to go on vacation or something during Shadowlands. Not even added as a customization option, which would make more sense than adding Sand Trolls to Darkspear Trolls…which is still confusing and we can only assume they’re just Darkspear Trolls with a skin tone similar to Sand Trolls.
-Wildhammers relegated to quest-duty for a few quests, only to sit there and watch one of their clanmates become fully playable while the other gets to prance around LARPing as them with haircuts and tattoos.
-Revantusk Forest Trolls being in the area and still allies of the Horde, but not doing very much to help out with anything in the storyline.
-Taunka, despite being full members of the Horde, are a no-show and don’t even get a seat on the Horde council.
-Furbolgs, despite being kinda displaced and having low air quality thanks to Sylvanas, do very little other than being jobbers in the BfA pre-patch.
-Despite being in a jungle area, the Horde Hozen don’t make an appearance aside from one being part of the Kor’kron.
-Saberon and Botani coming to Azeroth and escaping to the Barrens, only to have nothing come of it and being forgotten.
-And likely much much more I have forgotten!
BfA’s theme is pretty much missed opportunities to the point that I’m sure I could write a thesis paper on it.