You don’t have to wait 14 years fam. Plenty of private servers that offer a vanilla experience better than the Beta at the moment. Can provide if you want. No excuse there.
I attempted my character creation a few mins after him as well & I got in just fine. Not everyones experience is gonna the same. Its a dam STRESS test, do you expect it go to smoothly? Well you shouldn’t. See ya in 3 months, or maybe not. I could care less.