Exactly, it does come down to taste. People who like characters other than Sylvanas have taste, and those who like Sylvanas in her current state have none. But the people who do not like WoW lore at all have the most taste of all.
If you liked Sylvanas before BFA and Shadowlands it was at least understandable why you would like her. I didn’t, but I could understand why people would think so. Now if you like her it’s just that you like her no matter what. You don’t actually care about her story or anything that you might say that you do, you just like the idea of Sylvanas. Now, you’re allowed to have that opinion. And I’m allowed to say it’s bad taste in fiction (because it is).
It’s weird that you bring up Jaina or Thrall fans because I don’t think any of them exist anymore either. Jaina fans at least had the sense to drop her after her 6th heel turn in emotion and their necks still haven’t recovered from the whiplash, and Thrall fans recognize that he died when Metzen left. But Sylvanas fans are the only type of people who hold the cognitive dissonance that she is a great character because she portrays the ugliness of the human condition, or whatever pabulum they want to trot out to pretend that this is good writing but also like any of the developments in Shadowlands that completely wipes away any of her prior motivations for doing anything that she did.
Jaina fans, Thrall fans, Genn fans, whoever. They at least liked the character because it remained consistent. If you still like Sylvanas after SL, yeah, that’s just a sign that you like the cardboard cutout of Sylvanas and not anything about her character that you claim to like.
I infinitely respect the position of liking what Sylvanas used to be as a character but disliking what SL has done than I do liking Sylvanas no matter what she does.
I don’t want anyone who still likes Sylvanas to change their mind. It’s funnier this way.
Calm down, don’t get your flower crown in a twist. I just said your taste in characters is bad.
Because people liked him for being a villain. He was always consistent in that. He didn’t get any redemption story that completely subverted what his character was about. We didn’t get any story about how ACKSHUALLY it was a good thing that he sacrificed his soldiers and the mercenaries he hired, about how ACKSHUALLY he was really sorry for what he did to Lordaeron and Quel’thalas but it’s all good because he helps us stop the jailer at the end and everyone who he wronged accepts his hurt feelings. The extent of Arthas’s involvement in this patch is that he is a “break glass in case of subscriber loss” portion in the Anduin fight. If you like Arthas, you liked him for what he was in WC3 and Wrath and not whatever they’ve done with him since, because they haven’t done anything with him. This has nothing to do with Sylvanas being a villain and everything to do with her being right no matter what she does. And no, her having hurt feelings over what she did and people forgiving her isn’t consequences for her actions.