There could be many things said by going in details, but long story short, the approach of the devs is universal to on gameplay and story sides (till 8 about 9:50 mark [would be fitting], about “shards of domination = tier sets”):
Although the video is worth watching fully, and you might spot how the same stuff that is a problem for the gameplay, at least for the part of the audience that agrees with this PoV, are almost the same as what is seen with the story. Things do not exist in the vacuum. And this approach, with misleading and outright ignoring others, opinions, communication, is very similar to also how the recently “hot” events likely were possible to begin with.
In another thread I quoted the statement of Danuser about this patch providing “satisfying answers” to the night elves. Which is in line with his statement from BfA that the resolution of the BfA faction conflict story would be satisfying for both sides.
What it does not align with, is with the way the audience sees that stuff.
So, no. I do not think that this is “the end” in a way that they will be forevergone, but, I do think that this is the similar situation to what I’ve heard about the recent Star Wars movies: even though that makes no sense from the continuity perspective, for the story the current narrative team wants, they need the characters to behave a certain way (a single segment):
“…needed me a certain way to make the ending effective…”
gl hf