Quote Originally Posted by Raikai View Post
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.
Oh yeah... The add-on race in WoW is why I hate healing. Blizzard keeps balancing around the top players and weakauras. It is extremely stressful to heal on high M+ even with the best addons. I gave up caring, as I cannot even Raid as Raiders are expected to do M+ for gear just to get in as Raid drops are all RNG based and it never drops enough loot. While M+ gives loot much faster.