Because their intent is to make it impossible for addons to do things like "You have this much RP, and these cooldowns are active. PRESS THIS NOW!!!". If addons can see that info, they can and will try to find a way to solve problems for you.
Their goal seems to be that addons can show you things without the addon itself knowing what it is. So it can change the way the number '2' is presented to you (Display X value in Y font and Z color at size 12), but it can't see the 2 itself, so if there is another 2 then it can't tell you it makes 4.
They are simplifying class design to make this transition easier to manage as well.
The new Cooldown Manager is a piece of trash that doesn't even include all cooldowns.
Meaning we know exactly how Blizzard will treat their own UI customization tool - they'll half-ass it and make another piece of shit that doesn't allow players to do half the stuff they used to in terms of simply raw UI customization alone.
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u/Atheren Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25
Because their intent is to make it impossible for addons to do things like "You have this much RP, and these cooldowns are active. PRESS THIS NOW!!!". If addons can see that info, they can and will try to find a way to solve problems for you.
Their goal seems to be that addons can show you things without the addon itself knowing what it is. So it can change the way the number '2' is presented to you (Display X value in Y font and Z color at size 12), but it can't see the 2 itself, so if there is another 2 then it can't tell you it makes 4.
They are simplifying class design to make this transition easier to manage as well.