The better argument is that they weren’t just swords. They were the legendary weapons for Rogues, Warriors and later DKs. They are the only legendary weapons that can’t be mogged by the classes that can use them.
Only because there was no Warglaive weapon type back in The Burning Crusade.
more of rouges then warriors
Plenty of warrior tanks used the MH.
Frankly it was a DH weapon added before DH were playable, only classified as a sword because warglaive did not exist as a weapon class back then. It shouldn’t have ever been available to players until the class came out. TBC did a whole lot of dumb stuff.
Whelp you’re one of the few.
Because they were Rogue weapons longer than DHs have been in the game. (Though that gap is close to closing now)
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But it was. So the argument is null.
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Because warglaives became a DH thing and Blizz wants them to stay that way.
That’s all there is to it.
There’s nothing to fix. It’s not broken. It’s how it is.
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No ty I like them only moggable by DH
Which is a fine forward trend, but not retroactively on items the playerbase not only had access to, but were chase items and pinnacles of play to have. This would be akin to taking away T3 Dreadnaught mog from Warriors because it’s literally the armor of Death Knights, and then only letting the Death Knight class mog it.
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Its not a retroactive change, nobody could transmog then warglaives before…what was it bfa? Maybe late legion?
Regardless, before they updated to make legendaries transmogable nobody could transmog to the warglaives. The only transmog available is the demon hunter exclusive one, so nothing was taken away from you.
Not a good comparison, because you never had the transmog for the warglaives in the first place.
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I can just see Blizzard going “You know, you’re right. It’s time we fixed this.” and the hotfix patch notes state “The Warglaives of Azzinoth are now properly classified as glaives instead of swords.”
I guess he will be when we take them away again!
And nothing would be taken away from DH’s if they allowed the original items to be mogged as they are swords and have different animations and sheath appearances.
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The legendary itself wasn’t changed. DHs just get the transmog. You can run around all you want and try to rip off being a DH in your downtime. You just don’t get to mog them, because no other warglaives are moggable by anyone else.
Blizz’s rules.
Except the warglaives were never transmoggable to begin with until the unlock appearance specifically for DHs. So not a good example there.
No one else can transmog warglaives except DHs. It is what it is.
That was changed in Legion. They don’t even sheath the same as they used to back in BC.
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And it’s stupid. Shouldn’t be what it is.
It was never changed at all, whenever you equip the warglaives they look like this when sheathed:
That’s how it’s been since transmogging warglaives became a thing. 
Yes it was. They were flipped around for some reason.
Edit. Can’t tell from this, but they’re farther apart and flipped. I need to find a better image, sorry.
It’s almost why threads like this exist. 
That screenshot you posted proves my point. When you equip the items themselves, they look like that.
However, when you use the transmog appearance they look like this:
Not… really? Because the way they are for transmog isn’t how they are for the weapons themselves.
It’s kind of irrelevant, I was just pointing out that it did get changed. Also, this is how they were at the beginning of Legion, bugged until they had to go back and find a way to fix 'em, due to the DH animations:
The old Warglaives use the sword animations while the new transmogged ones use the Glaive ones, In doing so they’ve [messed] up the way they sheath
But… until Blizz decides to throw transmog limitations to the wind, y’all ain’t gettin’ warglaives. 
Exactly my point. Because if they allowed sword users to mog the weapons as they look when equipped, nothing would be taken away from DH’s who unlocked the transmog version and plus, they’d get another option.
Actually it is relevant.
Absolutely nothing was done to the original Warglaives and was even stated as such by Blizzard that they wouldn’t touch them.
They simply made a new version of the weapons that are classified as warglaives, use warglaive animations and also sheath differently. And that is what DH’s are able to mog into.
Here it is in the Wowhead database: