There’s actually a giant culture clash bomb involved with /spit, China, and many surrounding countries. Spitting in China has deep historical and cultural associations. Apart from being common there’s deeper meanings, like spitting out evil or “bad”. Internally there’s conflict in China about it as well with periodic pushback against it to get with the times. In some countries surrounding China they take it a step further. Sure China may be trying to dominate everyone around them, especially the neighbors – but close neighbors like Singapore (for example) their laws draw a massive red line. Spitting is a $1,000 fine on the low end. They absolutely wanted to define themselves as a very different NOT-China and in their mind better. It’s a conflict issue.
For a world-spanning-game like Warcraft, taking sides in this is a no-win thing. You irritate people by having it just the same as irritating them by taking it out. So here’s this window that “wokeness” provides, we can blame it on toxic-culture-pushback and get rid of it! It’s a big perk to find some way to totally step around this giant turd of culture-clash. So, right right this is about improving us for our reasons. Right?