I can agree to that, but the trope since Tolkien is that elves are a long lived people and not prone to reproducing as quickly as the younger races, but in WoW they’ve handwaved so much of the lore that now elves reach maturity at the same rate as humans than remain “ageless” for thousands of years (potentially), but the way Metzen described the elves he didn’t call them nations or factions he called them, “tribes” which has a connotation of less than a nation and more of small factions aka tribes. I think that implies the elves have certainly been humbled by the last 20 years and reduced substantially to even be “uniting.”