They finally cave and introduce High Elves; Does the Elf Brigade:
A.) Express gratitude and finally play their High Elf
B.) Shriek incessantly and obnoxiously about how the story isn’t catering to Blood Elf v3.1 High Elves until the end of time
there is nothing more annoying then high elf fans I can assure you.
Mages learn Mirror Image at level 44.
They want High Elves as a seperate AR with their own racials, heritage set, mount, and fully seperate customizations.
And they’ll honestly get it eventually. I imagine they’ll remove the customizations from Void Elves when that happens.
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As a bonus, maybe blizz will also open up more visage options for dracthyr while at it?
That would require more work than the entirety of the High Elves as an AR.
People wanting Orc Visages are honestly a minority just like they are with Demon Hunters.
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Man….I’ll guess I’ll just have to walk around in my sexy visage form with more customizations options than any high elf fan could ever dream off 
Silver Covenant High Elves have been featured quite heavily in Alliance content for a non-playable race, from Wrath, to MoP, and High Elf NPC’s are scattered around Dornogal.
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Aren’t Wildhammer supposed to be a bit taller and leaner than their Mountain Dwarf cousins? I mean I don’t think it’s a huge difference, but as one of the clans I’ve wanted to play since vanilla, I was a bit sad I didn’t get the option.
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Why would they have different racials from blood elves though? Mana Tap was removed ages ago and that was the only blood elf racial that wasn’t just arcane infused elf.
Why do Kul Tirans have different racials from humans?
Whatever answer you come up with, applies just as well to the High Elves. After all, the Kul Tiran aren’t part Drust. Blizzard outright stated that ages ago. They just don’t know when to put down the sausage.
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If Blizzard wants to add high elves as fat elves I will go make the popcorn. Would be quite the show.
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Fat Elves, Tall Elves, Short Elves, etc… point is, there are all sorts of ways to make it work.
I wouldn’t say heavily, but they have been around whenever Dalaran is around. And even if they were involved heavily … glances at Night Elves … I still doubt it would be enough to placate any of them.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care if Alliance get High Elves, just to be clear. I’m pretty elf fatigued in general, but mostly I’m just being petty about how insufferable some corners of the forum are about this topic. We’ve got 4 playable elf factions, not counting the vaguely elf Dracthyr visages, with appearance options that match exactly what they’re shrieking about, but that’s not enough. People do not behave this incessantly and petulantly outside of the Elf community, despite there being a long standing desire to see other races or options introduced.
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How many other races are the Alliance clamoring for that you don’t have to invent out of nothing?
There isn’t a vociferous backlash about Man’ari as a Draenei skin, or the Wildhammer dwarves, or Lightbound Undead. Speaking from the other side, there has been a long standing desire to see Ogres, Mok’nathal, Dragonmaw, and/or Forest Trolls that do not amount to a drop in the ocean of the salt that has been High Elf picketers.
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Here’s the thing - High Elf is an Alliance allied race discussion - unless they decide to make High Elves neutral allied race - its not going to take up a slot for the Horde side. High Elves are an easy get for the Alliance side requiring minimal work - which could free up resources for a more complicated Horde race.
One that needs it - Ogres. They’ll need work to become playable - as all playable races to date have 2 body types - male/female… Orges only have the male body type. Probably have detail up the current model too.
And to counter your point regarding cosmetics - they made Highmountain Tauren a Horde race - when they could have been covered with additional horn options on the standard Tauren - or given those Tauren to the Alliance - through the Cenarius connection to the Night Elves… so regardless of how close a race may look - Blizzard has shown they are willing to add races that could have been covered by cosmetic options.
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Blood Elves, High Elves, and Void Elves are all the same culture. Tauren and Highmountain Tauren are distinct. Which is why I chose to highlight the Man’ari Eredar, who are very much not Draenei, as being offered as a superficial cosmetic option and not presented as something distinct. Same with Wildhammer re: Bronzebeard.
Ultimately, for me, the point isn’t even that one race makes sense and the other doesn’t—as I’ve said, I don’t personally care if the Alliance get High Elves. I just find the brigade-demands from a group that has been given a version of what they want twice completely obnoxious.
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They’re probably not going to add a third race of blue-eyed blood elves to the game, especially not after folding explicit “high elf” customizations into the two playable high elf races. And they’re absolutely not going to retract those customizations, as some genius in this thread suggested, and reimplement them under a new name.
Ironically the anti-high elfers did too good a job, because their oft-repeated, but specious refrain of “high elves have zero population” rubbed off on the literal game developer, who under this belief discounted the Alliance’s high elves when brainstorming the void elf backstory. That’s a blunder.
As Solarion said, void elves really should have come from the Silver Covenant or Alleria’s old regiment, not a blood elf Void cult. The “we want high elves” request would be shallow as a puddle and dead in it if the void elves we got were the same high elves previously seen littering questing hubs.
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Midnight better bring back the other blood elves into the fold like the Sunfury remains, the Scryers and Illidari. I want my favorite elves be united under the red banner at last.