Quote Originally Posted by Tanis_Ebonhart View Post
They keep pushing it, yes. I'm just glad that it isn't so invasive like weakauras for WoW where the Dev team admitted that they made encounters and trash mobs so annoying and full of mechanics because they built around weakauras and the such instead of banning that addon entirely. Now the wall to get into high M+ and Raiding is too high and if you aren't using those addons then you're a liability and will be kicked.
That's an unfortunate truth, and one of the things that when I played WoW drove me off any kind of serious PVE harder than mild m+ or normal modes. The idea of having to keep up with multiple addons that are constantly updating to keep competitive was really obnoxious.

On the OP, I don't think that this kind of crusade against 3rd party things of any kind will ever happen, because even if the game doesn't die or near close to it, the corporate would scream louder at the subscription leak that it would cause.

At best, I could see them just upgrading their code infrastructure and there's a (possibly predicted?) side-effect of that causing 3rd party software to bug out. Regarding visual mods, I'm also curious to see whether or not the graphic upgrade background workings will break everything for them.