Nobody asked for void elves. Nobody asked for blood elves turncoating from Silvermoon to inexplicably immediately join the Alliance. People wanted Silver Covenant High elves that existed in the Alliance but were not playable.
Nah, it really was a spiteful conciliation and you just have to think about it for like a minute to realize that it was. Void elves did not release with High elf customizations originally. They were nothing but void. Ion said that blonde haired and blue-eyed elves are just not going to happen on the Alliance, and if people really wanted that ‘The Horde is waiting for you’. Of course, mid-way through Shadowlands when subs were tanking - AND they said they had no plans to implement more player customization in Shadowlands - look at that, suddenly you can be a blonde haired and blue eyed elf on Alliance. I wonder what changed in the intervening couple of years since “Horde is waiting for you” and “Here’s the High elves you wanted”?
Blizzard would’ve saved themselves, and the forums, the headache of all the High elf threads if they just added the Silver Covenant High elves that people wanted to begin with. They could’ve had a slightly different model or hairstyles, a lot of people made mockups of how they could look to differentiate themselves from Blood elves.
Instead they literally took Blood elves from Silvermoon, gave them tentacle hair and spraypainted them purple. Something nobody asked for. Then they backpedaled on that decision.