My experiences with AAP

AAP is for leveling the fastest way... that is their sole focus. Any other slant on what to do with AAP is not their concern. I'll give some examples of what it doesn't do, because of this, below.

AAP pretty much hand-holds you, drawing a green, moving line of dots to where it wants you to go. It tells you how many quests to pick up or hand in, or to do a quest part. There is a moving list so you can see what is coming up (or what has been done) It tells you to set a hearthstone, and later on to use that hearthstone.

AAP gets the job done, as best as it can. It can still be a little awkward to use, at times, and it definitely is not perfect.

What doesn't AAP do -- or how does it annoy me?

Case 1 - The Hearthstone

Personally, I never use a temporary hearthstone. I have mine set on 190 characters to the same place. To get around the forced hearthstone use, or any step in the chain you wish to skip, you can use the command /aap skip

Case 2 - Those pesky worldwide holidays

Elders, Fires, Candy buckets, etc. The interface of AAP makes a muffled cry of "Gosh, I'd be great for hitting these sites in a nice pattern...." However, the AAP team cares not for your pretty holidays, they are focused on leveling speed. (They have the framework... would just take someone to lay in the right data -- again, not them.)

Case 3 - Hitting the whole storyline

Saw someone complaining that AAP made them switch zones with only 6/7 chapters completed. The team determined it was faster leveling to switch there, and, well, say no more.

Case 4 - Wow! It's set up to do a zone that I need, such as Highmountain.

Yes, I was unlocking the Highmountain allied race and was pretty psyched to see that AAP was going to lead me through the entire zone/story. Until, that is, when I hit level 114 in the middle of it all, where AAP was pretty much forcing me to move to BfA content. It's a hard coded line similar to if (charlevel > 113) then SendThemOnTheirWay() end Edited the line, finished Highmountain.

One flaw in AAP is that it tells you to look for world quests, even if you're at the content's level cap. World quests go away when, for example, you hit 110 in Legion lands. AAP doesn't handle this well, but then again you're supposed to doing BfA once you're 110+.

Another flaw is that their macro for using quest items fails if you happen to have 2 or more quests with items to be used.

Anyways, it is a useful addon... sort of great to not have to think too hard about how to do that content from many years ago. Though, in it way it is sad that the game can be reduced to steps that any monkey can follow to get leveled up. Apparently, I'll gladly be a monkey if it gets the job I need done finished efficiently.