If the ship sinks, it is ultimately the captain’s responsibility.
This is how management works. If your team is crap at their job, it is because the manager failed at creating and running a team that isn’t crap.
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You’re right. The entire writing team is at fault and should be canned. I’m glad we’re all on the same page now.
They could have, but it would’ve involved potentially scuttling a character who is very marketable/merchable for future plot possibilities. I think right now they’re hoping that Christie Golden can fix as much as possible in her book, despite the fact that the rumor mill says that when she pointed out that the plot points to redeem Sylvanas weren’t being properly set up she was cut out of a lot of the process.
Mostly, I think they’re banking on the fact that they think that most people skip cutscenes, don’t read quest text and don’t care about the plot they just want to raidlog.
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Actually I was pretty happy with the writing of Legion. Ending with the cliffhanger of a giant sword stuck in the planet was AWESOME! I took a screenshot and sent it to a friend who quit in MOP.
The issue the player base has is how they have handled this cliffhanger and other plots: Poorly if at all. 
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To be fair, I’ve seen flashes of impressive writing in the Shadowlands. It just wasn’t in the main plot. The boots-on-the-ground writers doing the heavy lifting in quests and flavor NPCs are the undeserved champions as usual.
To be fair, I haven’t even seen that.
Yeah it’s a very weird how we are quick to hero-worship Sylvanas but quick to throw Arthas down the drain seems kinda bias and probably catering to the narrative of justifying toxic behavior alive just rebranding it.
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A leader is responsible for what his or her team does, so blaming him is only logical.
Folks with that huge a ego would just ignore criticism.
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The sword thing looked cool but ultimately painted them into a corner, which I surmise is why it is being ignored for the most part.
What they should done was had it destroy Azeroth completely forcing us to Argus or some other place.
That sword always bothers me because it reminds me that deathwing exploded out of the planet and caused cataclysm and that giant sword in Silithus did nothing to the planet. I never thought there could be a department worse than the balance department, yet, here we are.
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To be fair most of the damage to Azeroth wasn’t from him initially exploding out of the Maelstrom, it was from him flying around the planet on a random destruction tour.
Maybe if Sargeras had aimed for the ocean he could have gotten some tsunami bonus points instead of just nuking one zone.
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A zone no one even bothers going to in the first place
I’m just glad he missed AQ, I’m still missing one of those slinky dress mogs.
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What happened to Christie Golden? She wrote a couple Ravenloft books I really liked.
Um…bfa is what the sword did to the planet. Caused such a wound that it nearly dieded and we had to spend the whole expansion cleaning it up.
She writes the books. Not in game stuff
Hahhaahahahahahha. That was my biggest fear too when I first saw it.
That reminds me I need to pop back over there in the near future.
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I thought she was working with blizzard for a time? My mistake if I’m wrong tho 
She just works on books and short stories. Those tend to just write whatever Blizz tells them to write. But she’s not coming up with the lore