They still Exist which is the problem, Blizzard despite their words on not wanting to make those elves playable still continuously taunt Ally/Horde Players with High elves causing more controversy, though I have a solution for at least the silver covenant that I discuss in a bit of detail here:
The main problem is that Blizzard paid more attention to the silver covenant than they did any other playable races, and with the release of VE now is their chance to fix that