I am not sure if they gonna annouce next expansion, i hope they wont annouce it, so they would focus on Shadowlands content first, like you said, they havent released 9.1 ,,yet".
If I only have to get Stygia on my main to get decent gear for my alts that will make it easier and faster to farm legacy stuff, then I'm happy. Also the ilevel isn't THAT high when the new raid is out and it's a pretty good thing to have for casuals like me that still want to do some damage or healing without having to go full on hard-core player. I'm not against catch-up gear but I do want them to focus on more urgent stystems in the game that needs to be fixed, like an option to skip the Maw if you've already completed that questline on ONE character. As interesting that questchain was, it's getting really boring when you're on the second and third alt. They should also increase the anima we get from doing things, ESPECIALLY FROM EMISSARY CHESTS. I'd rather get 250 anima than 600gold at this point, Gold I can farm through other means. Especially since the cost of anima is so high on transmog, mounts, covenants and so on. You get less than you spend unless you really save every drop you manage to find.
Here I am after playing for a week, 4 belts in my bag and just got a staff followed by an offhand đŸ™„