If you do not like T&E then there is Bellular:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24dtddMT07k



And for me it is plausible that Afrasiabi could be responsible for this. He had a "rockstar" status at Blizzard, he was part of the Cosby suite and he was very high ranked. Maybe he had good ideas with and after the Teldrassil blowup. And maybe he has conviced other employees with "rockstar" status and this "LET US DO SOMETHING COMPLETELY CRAZY"-thing went through. But after this he was removed from the company and the current story team has no idea what to do with the story.

I suppose, they will retcon the Shadowlands story completely and lock it away. So it will become an optional level content. They have possibilities to do this in the game. The bronze dragonswarm could "fix" a damaged timeline etc.




Cheers