Dracoris

Yeah, I'm agreeing with you that right now, with us going back and forth, there aren't any time shenanigans happening. I just think it's a missed opportunity, and there's the potential to still do it at the end of the expansion if Blizzard wanted to, via a scenario or something.

Game mechanics are not always consistant with the lore. 1) Do you remember that AU Draenor was separated from MU Azeroth and they needed the dark portal to cross into our time? Well that doesn't make any sense with the portals easily available in both faction hubs near Ashran.

2) Do you know how the Maw is inescapable but we can hearth any time we want or use the portable wormhole generator or use any mage portal or be summoned by a warlock and two friends?

3) Do you recall that we killed Arthas how many years ago but I can roll into ICC tomorrow and take another stab at Invisible?

You are conflating game mechanics with story mechanics.

I think you tried to stick me for doing this, when all I said was that each expansion constitutes about 2 years of time in-universe, which just so happens to line up with the rate of expansion releases, but has absolutely nothing to do with the release schedule.

If you recall when you rescue Jaina, she mentions that she has escaped several times and been recaptured several times. They then immediately talk about how time is weird in there.

"Ion clarified this, saying that time is perceived differently in Shadowlands, like a dream where you sleep for six hours but in the dream state you experience events covering a wider range of time. It's not like every day in the Shadowlands is equivalent to five days in Azeroth"