While that’s crappy in hindsight, I like to try to experience each expansion in the context of its release because unless explicit they aren’t usually that connected. It would be hard to convince me that they always planned to have that shining and motivational moment actually be a grand cosmic deception.
At the time, Sylvanas was being written as a super interesting unlikely hero trope. And I really enjoyed it. I won’t let hamfisted Shadowlands writing ruin it for me.