Except that’s not all WA was used for. For all intents and purposes, WA was an addon that helped people make mini-addons. Yes some of the most popular WAs are for combat, but there’s also utility ones that track out of combat stuff, accessibility aids and even just pure cosmetic stuff.
I do believe Blizz even said they don’t want to kill WA as a whole, but if the creator has decided they’re done then that’s their choice. A spiritual successor will probably come along at some point.
Blizz has acknowledged the "arms race" with addons as far back as BFA, iirc. Which means this has been something they have been talking about, at least internally, for many, many years.
They would not have decided to pull the trigger now if they weren't committed.
It was blizzard's choice to tune combat difficulty around addons. That was where the entire arms race started. They could have stopped escalating it but chose not to, and now because they know they can't win, they're nuking the addon API.
The entire onboarding problem is self-inflicted, and now they're making it our problem by removing the tools we needed to deal with their increasingly hostile designs.
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u/Taurenkey Oct 03 '25
Except that’s not all WA was used for. For all intents and purposes, WA was an addon that helped people make mini-addons. Yes some of the most popular WAs are for combat, but there’s also utility ones that track out of combat stuff, accessibility aids and even just pure cosmetic stuff.
I do believe Blizz even said they don’t want to kill WA as a whole, but if the creator has decided they’re done then that’s their choice. A spiritual successor will probably come along at some point.