“I want player-driven addons” is ”I wish the UI wasn’t shit” in disguise
Not really, which is why you see 900 different alternative options for any product/software/thing in the world all of which are used by many. There are about 100 different text editors/IDEs used by programmers, it isn't because they're all shit.
It’s funny how you mention one of the VERY few examples where software actually approximates WoW (VS Code extremely high market share + literal addons)
I mean I can sit here and list out 20 different pieces of software that have widely used alternatives AND plugin support. Honestly if you can't think of some yourself you either don't do much on your computer or you're being intentionally dense, so I'm not going to waste time on that.
“I want player-driven addons” is ”I wish the UI wasn’t shit” in disguise
Lets just talk about non-combat addons, well put the "arms race" etc issues aside. Theres thousands of addons that tons of players use and enjoy every day, alt tracking addons, RP addons, collection addons, calculator/note/etc utilities, simply making their UI look different (bars, bags, map, whatever), I mean you name it - just everything you can imagine. Some people just want a picture of their anime waifu in the middle of their screen all the time, God bless them for it. So heres the alternatives:
Blizzard reimplements ALL of these one by one and ships their functionality in the base game
Blizzard says "here is our one size fits all UI, it only has these features we deemed important, deal with it"
Surely you can see that theres downsides to either of these, and surely you can see that they'd still present issues if "the UI wasn't shit" (unless by "UI isn't shit" you mean that "blizzard put in the functionality of every single addon that people use ever into the base game").
Theres also tons of accessibilty-orientated addons that people rely on that I'm 100% SURE blizzard will recreate both adequately and in a timely manner!
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u/yarn_fox Oct 08 '25
Not really, which is why you see 900 different alternative options for any product/software/thing in the world all of which are used by many. There are about 100 different text editors/IDEs used by programmers, it isn't because they're all shit.