Unfortunately what Blizzard wants, is not what a majority of the playerbase wants. And if they want to keep people playing their game and not having it be pointlessly hostile to new players. Then they need to change it.
Both veterans and newer players alike are struggling with this pointless wall. Like anytime someone is trying to get into the game and they get attached to their alliance character and want to do stuff with me I have to tell them tough luck I’m on horde, maybe when you get to M+ I can finally do things with you and whoops suddenly their interest in the game is lost. Shame I can’t just join people without making redundant alts I do not want to play.
Every other MMO out there with factions lets people do content together. Imagine playing FF14 and being like oh you wanna do your random dungeon today? Oh sorry you’re Malstrom scum I picked the Immortal Flames enjoy doing it alone. Lul wut?
Even in ESO where the factions are actually at a realistic ongoing political struggle between the three of them. With an ongoing war in the middle province. You can not only join any of the factions as any race, but you can play with any player you want. Turns out, faction wars only matter in combat zones just like in real life. Like how I’m not going to instantly aggro some Russian that walks by me on the street in the US.
Love how you and Blizzard are doing this under the guise of “Waah we don’t want to force people into cross faction queues!” When all you’re doing is forcing the rest of us, the majority, to make alts we do not want on factions we do not care about to play with the friends we do like. Pure hypocrisy.
If you want to only have a toggle for same faction queues, then opt into it. If you feel “forced” to opt into the cross faction one for faster queues, because… surprise surprise, mostly everyone else wants cross faction queues! (BIG SHOCK I KNOW) then well that’s on you. That is most certainly a YOU problem. Either queue cross faction or enjoy being racist. Why are we catering to the racists?