I’ve not written terribly much about addons here, but I did make a post about my fully redone UI at the start of Dragonflight, and even when I wanted to go minimal I noticed that I didn’t go minimal.
At the time of writing this I have 148 folders inside my Interface/Addons folder, luckily that doesn’t mean I run 148 addons, because I can quickly eliminate around 100 by removing addons that are split in subpackages, but I think 40-50 remain. Surely they all can’t be important. And surely they all can’t stop functioning with the next expansion (if they are combat addons).
I suppose I’m just very happy to eliminate some quirks in the game, or just improve things I don’t love. My guess would be that half of those are just QoL addons.
Oh, and I hadn’t even counted my WeakAuras. A lot of those are also just QoL stuff or reminders “No Pet/Pet Passive/Use Battle Shout” which would be fine as addons out of combat. Or Profession knowledge point tracking, but we’ll see how that develops.
I’m certainly not in despair, especially not about combat. I’m just a little wary of maybe losing some customization I really like, stuff that makes the game more enjoyable for me – maybe because I don’t have to count to 10 in my head, maybe because a certain thing is positioned better than doable with Blizzard’s own UI.