Aesthetics aside, spatial rift is an awesome racial for PvP. Sure, human/orc is meta, but spatial rift let’s you pull off some dope plays. As a hunter, I like to disengage/spatial rift while fighting melee and then teleport as soon as they waste the gap closer. 9/10 times they have absolutely no idea what just happened and you have a 30-40 yard gap while they wait for cd’s
EDIT: The 3 min CD does take away some of its usefulness.
I found spatial rift to be next to useless. It does not move faster than walking speed and does not move you very far. the times where I juke one way and rift the other, I stay alive for about 3 more seconds.
As for the other racial, is spell knock back even an issue on retail? The racial would be OP in classic though.