wtf is wow-hub-launcher?

WoW Hub Launcher is a desktop application for people who play older versions of World of Warcraft, ranging from the original Vanilla release through Legion. Instead of juggling separate shortcuts and settings for each expansion, players get one dark themed launcher that finds their installed game clients automatically and lets them manage everything from a single window. The launcher scans a player's game folders to find valid copies of the wow.exe program for each supported expansion, from Vanilla through Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, Warlords of Draenor, and Legion. Once connected, it can toggle addons on and off without needing to start the game first, ping configured servers in the background to show live status, and automatically apply expansion specific tweaks such as widescreen field of view fixes for Vanilla or audio fixes for The Burning Crusade. One of its more technical features is applying a memory patch to older 32-bit game clients, most notably Wrath of the Lich King, which raises the amount of memory the game can use and helps prevent a common crash that happens in the Dalaran city area. Because this involves directly editing the executable file, the project always creates a backup copy first. The README is upfront that this same behavior can trigger antivirus software to flag the launcher as suspicious, and explains that this is a known false positive tied to how the patching and the packaging tool work, not a sign of anything malicious, and points to the exact function in the code where this happens for anyone who wants to check. To use it, a player just downloads the executable, places it anywhere on their computer, and runs it, with all configuration and log files kept in a separate folder rather than cluttering the game directories. Anyone who prefers not to run the prebuilt executable can instead clone the repository and run the Python source directly, provided they have Python 3.8 or newer installed.