We have a blue reply on this thread about it:
Legacy and the Grobbulus Era realm have been able to grow in part because of the Paid Transfer service enabling Whitemane misfits to stumble on over to our little village on Grobbulus, similar to the sentiment shared above.
We still have a few folks who are leveling new with us, and we’ll see more of them, but without the Paid Transfer Service, new friends aren’t able to transfer their existing 60s to play with us, even though they have been able to for the last 4 years.
If anyone else wants the Paid Transfer Service reinstated, please go reply to the blue post there demanding it back.