It’s obviously a test for removal of all gathering consumables for the next expac as part of the move to combat gold farming/bots etc.
First Aid gone because they saw it as useless. Herbing/Mining/Skinning gone because it would remove a major source of income for gold farmers.
Yeah I know, a silly comment… 
lol. Here’s him admitting to being sincere about it all:
What a strange topic to jump in and say he’s joking about when he’s given every signal, implicit and explicit, that you’re wrong.
I’m glad I’ve got this thing going on. It makes me feel like my forum IO has increased by 8 points.
Regardless, we don’t actually need to be able to farm in content that is already driven engagement for compulsory reasons to “drive engagement” in that content.
Honestly you act like this is an altruistic endeavor to give Blizz’s weak update a bone which is more of a meme than even I’m being here.
You want to be able to farm in a tiny zone, that’s fair, I don’t hate for it. But stop acting like you’re out to drive engagement to content that already has more than it actually deserves.
I was originally critiquing Blizz’s weak update. The zone is boring. My original post I think made this clear.
When I first met you, you had significantly fewer posts than me.
Surely that counts for something.
It means I’ve lost a lot of game progress in exchange for forum posts. Still doing my things but I’m sure I could have done more if I wasn’t doing what I did here.
Discourse is fun, until it isn’t. I say partake.
Maybe I’m a poor influence, though.
Given how large a part of the game gathering is now, I have to admit some surprise too that there are no resources other than fish on the isle.
The #Quality within
It was meant to be a unlootable area originally. They reused assets from it. Because of that, almost nothing there even has a mob family attached to it.
Siren isle was rushed maybe? Hot fix to be added to allow skinning creatures sometime next year?
Wasn’t Sirens Isle originally a BfA island that got repurposed? I don’t remember if those had resource nodes on them or not.
theres no ore or herbs on the island, and i havent had any cloth drops, so since none of those professions get to do their stuff on the island, there will be no skin on the island either, now take your skin off and leave it at the door, this is a skin free island
Realistically, that island is so small it kinda makes sense there’s nothing to gather. After we get flying, I wonder how many laps one could do in a minute.
I really haven’t spent more than the “mandatory” amount of time there. And that ring is in my mains bags.
If what I’ve read is true, its them using an Island Expedition map, and there is no gathering on IE islands. They would have had to go through an add nodes and skinabble beasts and that obviously wasn’t something they felt they needed to spend $$ on. There is also no flight on IE islands and that again would have required adjustment (I suspect its more than just flipping a switch, as players are flying over terrain not designed to be seen and interactable from above.)
It’s not even worth engaging with either of them. The more they argued with you the more I realized how annoying they were being for no reason.