Communication is a key part of raiding. If you don’t know how to communicate…
If only they had an answer.
You don’t need any addons unless you are Mythic raiding or pushing keys well past +10.
If you don’t Mythic raid, your opinion on addons is pretty worthless to be honest.
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Please tell me how to communicate in the span of six seconds to assign 20 people into ten different places?
They don’t. There’s no answer for trolling. They either know they’re wrong or they are delusional enough to believe they’re right. Whatchu gonna accomplish in either situation by replying to this degeneracy?
Ayukama is genuinely accusing someone of trolling after he got angry because he asked for a citation and then one was provided to him. These are braindead people. You can’t save them.
In otherwords, you’re also trolling.
Just someone who has done Fyrakk.
Hallelujah, there are people who aren’t entirely braindead in GD. Your common sense presence is very welcome here.
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It’s not necessarily that easy. The default UI has no way for me to track important buffs, and it’s not feasible to look at the little icons for that information. Let’s take barbed shot stacks as an example. Can I see the stacks and time with the default UI? Yes. Will it be easy to see/read, and be in the same location when I need to look? Hell no. What about trinket procs so I can time CD’s?
Sure, I could be mediocre DPS with the default UI, or I could use an add on and just be better.
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Can you move those buffs/debuffs with edit mode?
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I’ve never played BM, so I don’t know what you’re asking to track. But the default UI should accommodate.
To my knowledge, there’s not a way in the default UI to put a specific buff in a specific location on the screen.
The thing is, I don’t care if anyone doesn’t use them, but I don’t want them removed because GD decided to be 
about it. They’re not game breaking, they’ve been here since the beginning.
Should, but doesn’t.
My dude, WoW is a multiplayer game. The standards that we’re all held to tend to be enforced socially. You can dig your heels in, but that’s only gonna hurt you. We have control over our actions, but the social system we exist within dictates an individual’s standard of quality. Making the choice to opt out of addons is a personal choice, yes, but that choice also comes with external consequences when interacting with the community, especially in the game’s many goal oriented environments. WoW’s social ecosystem values effectiveness, and your ability to contribute to the mitigation of failure and contribtutions towards success. There are a massive number of drawbacks to ‘scaling back addon use’, and lets not pretend that there’s a plethora of massive knowledge and cognative load advantages to having an updated UI and mechanical trackers.
This all said, I tend to think that it isn’t that big of a deal to launch Curseforge once a week to update all, and check Wagoio and elvui for a manual download once or twice per season.
I just genuinely despise the ‘but you do this to yourself’ feedback when a player hits a designed pain point in an online game. If it was a single player game, sure, but by virtue of the game being multiplayer, OP is bound by various unspoken social contracts. Do you have to comply? No, but non-compliance often comes with some degree of social drawback. People will be turned off from playing with you if you aren’t playing at the same level.
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I mean, you think it should, and it does for some things, but not for everything
A big tip I’m gonna say is that you do not need as many addons or weakauras as you think you do. Weakauras are unfortunately required because of class design but you can scale those back significantly.
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Dude, your name. Bravo.
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Bro my name, your name and your character model is 1000% better. Absolute King 
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2/3 specs in my class (DK) have major mechanics that cannot be adequately tracked using stock UI. DK DPS is genuinely unplayable without some kind of tracking assistance addon. The most relevant buffs and debuffs regularly get bumped off of enemy nameplates and the personal resource tracker.
Festermight dictates the priorty flow of core wounds/runes/RP economy outside of cooldowns. The entire rotation shifts based on my FM stacks, and I have legit no way to isolate and track it in a reliable position with stock UI. Gathering Storm is also like a mini Breath of Sindragosa, that I have to extend out as long as possible by smashing oblits, and it often comes down to 1/3 of a GCD to come to split second decisions. These buffs are just needles in the haystack, when all your buffs are on the upper right corner of the screen and there’s 2-3 rows of 12 rolling during a raid or dungeon.
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I’m not advocating for the banning of add ons.
I’m advocating for OP to stop using them if they bother him so much.
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My B, cuz. Carry on.