I’m curious to see what everyone has to say.
BFA and SL pretty much, for all I care nothing in them happened and we’re still fighting the legion somewhere
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Warlords definitely wasn’t INTENDED to be filler. But it’s parts were scrapped to focus development on Legion.
Afterwards of course, Legion was easily the best expansion in my opinion. So Hopefully Shadowlands gets cut and turned into Filler too.
10.0 could have mountains of content and a New Class… Instead of just being more boring supplementary progression like shadowlands.
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I’m hoping we get something special for 10.0, but who even knows these days.
I think we will.
Shadowlands feels like WoD again.
No new class, no new race. A simple expansion that just gets more Dungeons and Raids as time goes on, alongside catch up mechanics and daily quests.
An Expansion that succeeds in universally making everyone Bored.
And to be honest, I generally enjoy shadowlands. I like Mythic + and Dungeons just the same as before. It’s just an aesthetic I don’t care about, Zones I don’t care about, and no new class.
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Pandaria didn’t do much in the way of advancing the story of Azeroth. Warlords was abandoned. I guess I could say they were the least consequential expansions. We could have gone from Cataclysm to Legion without anything feeling out of place.
None. I don’t think there’s any such thing as a filler expansion. Storywise most of them lead directly into each other and wouldn’t exist otherwise, they’re all important arcs with important developments. Filler implies you can just take one out and not miss it, unimportant, but that’s totally not possible for any of them.
Aside from WoD, they’ve all been full scale expansions with all the range of content and patches that come with it. You can dislike the story or content, but it’s still there and real. So I don’t believe there are fillers. 
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SL and WoD pretty much define ‘filler expansion’.
BFA was just a downright failure.
I actually though Garrosh was one of the best villains we’ve had in WoW
I really don’t care much for Larger than Life villains. Space demons, The Jailer, it’s very “meh” Garrosh on the other than had understandable, human motivations. He wanted to conquest and rule the world.
Simple motivations, sure. But you can understand them.
MoP lacked a lot, but
Cooking + farming
Professions over all was good
The content was decent
Cata was a slap with simplifying the game play
Did not play
WoD
Legion
You missed out. Best expansion to date if you ask me.
Garrosh was a good villain, but the overall story of those two expansions were pretty underwhelming.
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True, but I absolutely LOVED Mists of Pandaria (except the dailies of course). I loved that it was very down-to-earth (most of the time), I loved the locations, I loved the lore, and a lot more.
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It revealed a whole new Old God, I could say that did more than Cataclysm where it was very much Deathwing just going around doing random vandalism until we kill him in Dragon Soul.
In fact, I think MoP did the most worldbuilding of ALL expansions because it didnt have the buffer that was having an RTS based expansion. Sure, little of it affected Kalimdor and EKs, but thats another thing altogether.
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The only thing wow i consider a filler , was the selfie patch …
I backed played it a little the zones alone looked good…
The professions looked like they had good content around them.
The legendary weapon looked like a cool concept but killing it at the end of the expansion would have been a low blow
Hey HEY that was the HIGH POINT of WoD, ok?
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Yes they were probably very high in that point of WoD 
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WoD is the only real filler expansion, objectively.
All the other expansions were actually finished.
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I think Blizzard was actually high when they made WoD.