Looking at 9.1 and 9.2… I do not agree with that.
I like Thrall; I simply do not care about his reunion with Draka (although I have to admit her already knowing was well-done.)
I should care about Mograine. Seeing him as a Necrolord… Well, they tried to play it up as something interesting, but it doesn’t have enough room to land.
I like Taelia; she feels completely out of place in every regard in SL and thrown on the scrappy pile.
I appreciate that they tried to save Kael’thas’ character from how BC did him dirty. It was a valiant attempt but he’s best forgotten, there’s no saving that.
I think the biggest issue with SL is that there’s no reverence and few reminders we are in the land of the dead, and the character-driven melodrama that is the current writing would make throwing more of the living into the lands of the dead worse. I think a living world MMO should only ever visit the afterlife in quick trips – one, limited area. If we had just seen the Kyrian, Oribos, and the Maw and been told, “this is not the afterlife, just a waystation on the way to the afterlife and a broken part of that waystation”
that would have been a great patch
the concept just cannot support an entire expansion