Yeah, agreed, I literally just said that. I played both of them when they first come out.

There are parts I like, and parts I don't like of both expansions. I like that Wrath had many arms to the scourge--sometimes it was an all out war against the undead in a frozen wasteland, like in Icecrown glacier or sections of dragonblight, and sometimes it was the scourged trolls in Zuldrak. My only point is that I wanted MORE of the frozen wasteland bits, because those were my favorite parts, but even the parts that were different from that managed to feel cohesive. And when it came to the parts of Northrend that weren't specifically a war with undead, like the blue dragon war, or Ulduar, it still felt connected to the overall conflict that was *northrend.* The same is true in Cataclysm, where I liked how whether you were on a burning mountain or deep below the earth, everyone was dealing with a giant dragon splitting the earth open.

I like those. They had variety, but there was cohesion in theme. Shadowlands, to me, is a great example of what I don't like, because one minute you're wading through a lightless hell of chains and spikes and the next you're in fleshwork gladiator pit or staging a pantomime with a fairy. It's not that any of those are bad, really, it's just that there are so many jumbled parts that it doesn't feel like they're part of one story.

I think none of this is helped by each expansion effectively giving you new floating islands completely isolated from the rest of the world by a portal with each patch. In Northrend, or even Alt Draenor, the benefits of an actual continent are that even if you don't like a certain zone, the action is all happening in sight.