I didn’t. That’s been the communities definition of borrowed power since it came to be lol.
I can find several sources, can you even find one to back up your claim?
Is it something to do with shadowlands? Been reading reddit posts for an hour and everyone talks as if its obvious. But whooosh right over my head.
"Basically expansion-specific items or powers that get removed once the expansion is over.
“Legion artifacts, corruptions, and essences and traits are the best examples”
“Power that your character borrows for some reason and after some time it goes away. Corruption is borrowed power, for example. 99% of azerite power, covenant abilities(i doubt they’ll stay after SL).”

I don’t see why “more ways to get the exact same gear and then shell out and grind much harder content to get hundreds of unnoticeably small upgrades” is not borrowed power.
That’s literally just more avenues to gear lol.
Nothing more.
You don’t have some magical sword that you power up throughout the xpac and it goes away.
That’s literally borrowed power.
It’s called “BORROWED” for a reason.
Gear is replaced quite quickly. You don’t BORROW them for the xpac.

see immediately that it was an upgrade, and equip it without taking any time to sim or reforge it.
I mean you still can. It’s players who decide to do all those things.

And then there are people who take pride in how much of their time they allow to be wasted
How is your time being wasted by having more options?
Seems like your time is being respected since you can do whatever you want to get more or less the same gear.