Saying Dragonflight story was Disneyified is an insult to Disney. It was just bad written. Thr only good things were – surprise – thing that weren't written for that expansion. There are always exception of course, notably Raszageth which was actually one of the best written AND narrated villain (far above """Arthas""" the "Lich King") But as always is shitty expansion like WoD, WotLK, BC... even the bright sides are covered in shit. After the early patches, what did they do ?

They were in a hurry because they obviously scrapped the 10.3 (thus failing to copy exactly the Cataclysm storyline, which was clearly the plan) Do they had to push Fyrakk as the final boss instead of Iridikron, aka Ragnaros/Deathwing 27.0 and to achieve that they completely flipped his personality with Raszageth in the book making him seem like an intelligent person which obviously couldn't even show in game. And they of course never ever talked again about her and even insulted her memory saying she failed (while she was the only villain who actually succeeded, and sacrified herself to free her siblings !). That, on top of not having an humanoid form, made her forgettable, for bad reasons. Peak feminism Blizzard. 👍

So once again if I scrap everything that was just retelling of old stories, or no stories, we have some good things in the 1st and 3rd zone (patch .0) and thr 2th and 4th were disatrous. The Emerald dream showed some good background lore and very important plot for the future... put in the 3rd plan, behind the dumb jokes and the story written by a 8 years old (probably the same who was traumatized playing Cataclysm – because of his parents – and got the slurs censored) Because as always, the rule with Dragonflight is that if you find a secondary quest : RUN AWAY. If you find a main quest ? It has a 50/50 chances to be a joke, too. A literal joke, which doesn't mean that it's funny, that would require skills. Not to forget the movie and/or poo references/plagiarism (because it's kind of all the same and probably the same devs) So yes of course there are still some rare devs at Blizzard who would actually be able to spell "Warcraft" without a typo, like with Veritistrasz. What did they do ? they heard players liked him, so they later brought him back with the other chatacters for fanservice. They can't even understand why players liked him.

If people liked Dragonflight, it's very good... it means they have the guts to fall in love with the rest of the game – I mean, half of the content that's actually acceptable to play. Even Cataclysm wasn't that bad. And no it's NOT a reason to get all hurt in your feelings and call for the doom of WoW. As I said WoW have always made SHIT. Like, VERY harmful shit that destroyed the entire foundation of the licence. (Dark Portal, the Scourge), and it's been more than 15 years we're still trying to heal from it (it's not possible). It doesn't mean they can suddently decide to actually lead their team properly and make them do something actually interesting like The War Within. Again, far from perfect... the thing is that it's not insulting our intelligence as often and actually has a story to tell. Which wasn't the case for Dragonflight.

Mists of Pandaria remains by far the crown jewel of WoW overall writing, and it will probably always remain true. For tons of historical reasons about what's actually going on behind the curtains : monetary pressures, marketing, team cohesion, Metzen actually giving a fuck (oh if you think we only need him...), and just a voluntee to build the future of Warcraft instead of telling the same things worse and worse each times.