It’s stuff like this that has caused full erosion of Blizzard credibility. It’s small stuff that has happened over the year’s that has caused the player base to lose faith in the ability of Blizzard to make informed decisions.
A very small part of the population is going to transfer off to a smaller server. The player’s who are smart and know that a small server is not in the best interest of their guilds will not leave.
This should all be common sense to Blizzard. Blizzard rarely reaches out to the community to provide options on what can be done. If they had simply put layers into place temporarily again (while this pandemic is in place) and increased server capacity on the impacted realms… very few people would have complained.
It is what it is at this point. Players will have to find ways to keep their characters online so that they can raid on raid nights. The queue will be an annoyance in the short term.
It’s decisions like these why many of the pserver players did not want to come to Classic servers. At least the pserver mods listened to their player base and made informed decisions versus half - you know what “fixes”.