Well like him or hate him. The guy has a pretty awesome design, so I can't help but hope that you'll do a full body of him sometime :)
I really wanted him to have some sort of redemption and stayed in the game as a character. It just seems like such a waste to throw him out as a random villain :/

A lot of people felt he was wasted potential, but nope... Blizz already decided that he was going to be a villain all the way back in TBC... so nothing that can be helped there.

I'd have been fine with him being a villain, but the way they handled it just ended up ruining a cool potential character.

I mean, they hadn't decided in TBC; Metzen decided during either Wrath or Cata to make him a villian, while one of the other devs wanted him to undergo a story where he became an honorable warchief, which is why he had that odd character development shoving him in different directions in Cata. Sadly, Metzen's design ethos for him won out.

There was an interview stating that they had already plotted out Garrosh's overall legacy during the TBC era. He was originally planned to be more of a protagonist by his creator when his concepts were being designed, yes, but by the end of TBC they had already settled on his story. Plus, Blizzard was foreshadowing Garrosh's Face-Heel Turn as far back as late-TBC / early-Wrath in the WoW comic series that was being published at that time.

The characterization flip-flop in Cata was the result of miscommunication among the writers at the time; the writers of the Stonetalon questline didn't know about Garrosh's intended portrayal back then, so they erroneously made that scene where he appears to be learning from Saurfang's teachings. When you cut out that part from Garrosh's overall story, his overall character becomes more consistent with his earlier and later portrayals.

He was always intended to be villainous.

they can say what ever they want. i think they pussed out. if they did plan in in tbc. then some of the quests in cata make no sense..... but ah well. he is still a nice slab of beef. well done ^^