Call it a conspiracy theory if you want but this is way for Blizzard to get even more money. They'll just alternate the stronger faction so that people pay money to transfer back and forth.
The overwhelming majority of us didn't sim our characters and determine a 1% difference in DPS in a raiding environment on a Patchwerk-type fight as the deciding factor of why we went a certain faction. If you're not a guild like Method, stop using racials one way or the other as an excuse.It's a snowball effect based on human behavior. People who play want to play with those who are as good or better than themselves. It trickles down from the top. This is why different regions have different faction biases.If you can somehow incentivize the top guilds to go Alliance. on the Horde-heavy regions, then you will see shifts over time. It doesn't even have to be as a result of tweaking racials, or even removing/disabling them (because at this point, that won't make much of a difference). Maybe by providing some form of sponsorship or partnership might we see some form of change from top guilds, which would trickle down to the guilds below them.
Let's be honest, even if they removed racials tomorrow, the faction imbalance will only get a little bit better. That was the reason for its beginning, but now it's just that there are soooo many more good guilds on the Horde side that serious people just play on the horde side. Sure, Limit COULD switch to Alliance and get world first Alliance clear next raid, but that would be a momentary win for a steady decline down the road.
It could be a good marketing strategy for blizzard with many H guilds probably rolling A for the title. Also a good way to balance H and A population across the globe.
Another issue at this point (beyond racials) is just the sheer fact that the mythic raiding population on Horde is now significantly larger than it is on Alliance. A Horde guild that is recruiting will have many more potential recruits to choose from than an Alliance guild. Even if Blizzard took out racials completely, a Horde guild is still at a huge advantage because that's where the vast majority of mythic raiders are.The only real option for Blizzard is to give mythic raiders/guilds a reason to switch back to Alliance, i.e. giving Alliance the edge as far as racials go, and keep doing that until there's a better balance between the two factions (and then remove racials altogether).
Wow, not one Alliance can admit Horde are just better players and probably better people in general. Is there some Horde Derangement Syndrome going on? The red wave comes for you, boy king! (Politics + WoW triggers, maybe not ALL horde are good people)
We could always change in it a way that pleases both sides. Just open crossrealm mythics to the faction which has the 100 Kills so we dont need to wait some Boy King spurring Alliance to action. They can go on their own pace. Let us go on our own. On site-note i'm not currently raiding myself so i dont personally care when they open for Cross-realms.