World of Warcraft: Shadowlands might go down as one of the worst-received expansions in the game's history—a situation so dire that it quite literally caused Blizzard to do a 180, scrap whatever plot it was working on, and throw players into a five-year timeskip on the Dragon Isles just so it could shake the dang thing off.
That's for a number of reasons—arduous endgame chores, massive content droughts—but also its story, which made a huge attempt at retconing an extremely boring villain, who spent most of his time saying "pitiful mortal," into years of beloved Warcraft lore. It didn't work. People hated the guts out of it.
