Instead, Sylvanas does this as the opening stage and the aggressor, while the Alliance is just reacting and defending itself again. Sylvanas would have then lost her city and ordered an immediate retaliation in Kalimdor, where the bulk of the Horde's forces still were, then ordered the burning of the tree both as revenge and to sap the will of the Alliance to follow up on the campaign in the west. If the diplomatic snafu of the attempted reunion in Before the Storm was escalated enough, especially with Calia Menethil dead by Sylvanas's hands and Anduin feeling she is beyond hope of redemption, it would have made sense for Anduin to heed Greymane's counsel and order an attack. Going by the lore, it wouldn't have even been that hard to justify. Then you'd have Horde players either accepting it as revenge or seeing a logical reason why Sylvanas would retaliate in such a way, and Alliance players would have both the sensation of being proactive for once and ultimately having their own role in the destruction of Teldrassil by starting the war. On a related note, the other thing that I've been considering is that if the burning of the tree came after the taking of Lordaeron City by the Alliance, it would have been much better received both in and out of universe. There's a few lines that I feel like I would have changed a little more drastically in a full short story, but that's not really worth it.
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