Ok so getting to the bottom of this produced a real issue with my games directory.

Apparently when I moved from an IDE SATA drive to a SSD drive my OS files all got corrupted with an unknown owner. Everything installed on the prior system had an owner and group note of ?????? ???????.

Unfortunately I learned this AFTER uninstalling WoW so I can't say right this moment if this fixed the issue but I assume it did. Something it needed permission for it didn't have or so I'm assuming. That is the only difference.

Before uninstalling and finding the ownership problem I did clear all old, unused mods and variables. Didn't fix the problem. So hopefully this does.