To cover a couple things I've seen in the comments: Blizzards market is the subscription : so making the leveling longer does make sense in a business side of things as you either spend more time = more subs or buy a boost = win win for them either way.I do think allied races being gated is fair, new people or people who quit the game don't need to have everything people who've actually played and supported blizzard do. Put in the time to reap the rewards.Leveling isn't insanely long but the fact that some people were able to level from 1-90 in less than an hour using that elixir was dumb. I haven't really been crazy farming all the world quests and I'm half way to exalted into 7th legion. Don't forget that the outposts give really good rep quests and that warfronts give good rep as well, there's island expeditions weekly and your emissary quest, I've tried clearing every quest for 7th and it takes around an hour if you map it out correctly. So putting in that hour a day and you'll unlock it in a month from zero at tops without human bonus/contract/warfronts, add those together and it super easy. Just time consuming.
So believe it or not you CAN get exalted still having a social life, its only the kul tiras world quests (and 1 or 2 quests on zandalar) plus the follower missions that can be done in the app. I hit it last night and skipped some days. It seems daunting but it's not too bad. Plus this will get much easier when warfronts go live as that will give you rep too.Having said that, Xalea you SHOULD be jealous cuz my mag'har is so cool :)