Unpopular opinion but I think people just notice it more because it’s the night elves, if it were gnomes, draenei, dwarves, or humans etc. I rarely hear anyone complain, and some of those said races are treated even more horribly in the story in my opinion, and that’s just for the Alliance.
Some of these examples include;
Gnomes lost their home at the start of the Game, they are constantly ridiculed (just look at what happened to the gnome during the Alliance war campaign), Mekkatork dead or incapacitated after getting less than half a minute of fame.
Draenei most of their history involves them being tortured killed etc. Look at BC there is a road made of bones of the dead Draenei, and look at wod where at the start you are made to watch as Draenei are repeatedly thrown into a boiling cauldron.
Aside from Cata where everyone got hit, BFA is probably the only time where the Night Elves from darnasus actually received a significant blow lorewise, and they didn’t even lose any major characters aside from delaryn who we never saw in-game or was never that important till bfa.
Do they even help in war? I don’t recall seeing one in the undercity siege cinematic. Or any cinematic for that matter. I can just remember that very first one when she changes in a panther.
People won’t ever be happy long as it’s an elf race.
Has nothing to do with what Blizzard does, it’s simply the playerbase elves generally attract.
Never mind that Night elves have tons of lore, cinematic material, more added customizations, an entire themed Warfront and gear to match their aesthetics.
People will complain. How many Gnome players have we seen complaining because of a literal Gnome Holocaust quest? Oh right, we get more complaints because Tyrande defeated Nathanos but didn’t OBLITERATE him.
Hahahaha! You guys got a lot of stuff(Warfront theme, best customizations in game, etc) while other races as Pandaren have yet to even make an appearance or a single dialogue since MoP and still complain?
You can’t even expect an Elf to do something right anyway, Sylvanas couldn’t even get rid of these tree vermin malformed Trolls.
Don’t forget the Undead, and the Undercity there was an uproar over sylvanas actions sure, but I don’t recall anyone complaining over the undead losing their home.