Skoll Shorties

Remove the Forsaken's nearly two-decade old aesthetic themes and you're just left with Lordaeronian humans with a case of rot and glowy-eye wearing red and spikes. I get the sentiment against WMDs but it's a fantasy game, and their fantasy is very iconic and distinct.

The Forsaken are not sorely based around the use of the plague. That was introduced in Wrath of the Lich King and has been constantly pitched as not only a negative thing but a forbidden thing in the Horde. It is is a logical step for the Horde to ban it completely.

The Forsaken have been making Plague since Vanilla. They have several quests that involve gathering ingredients for apothecaries performing experiments on plague and blight. It is very much woven into their concept as a race. But banning the "aesthetics" implies visual elements

I'm very apathetic on whether or not the Plague is deployed in the game as long as it isn't subjected to whatever writer's whims, but scrubbing down the visuals of the Forsaken would only be bad.

Removing the plague from the Forsaken isn't going to ruin their whole aesthetic.

I think there is some confusion with the language being used. The plague/blight doesn't matter to me, it's the imagery of the race. Skulls and shadows, green moats, plague doctor regalia, the aesthetics, those sorts of things are what I mean, not the plague itself.