Please re-consider allowing free transfers off the RP realms. The realm shouldn’t be looked at from a total player base population because there is no cross-faction game-play in this version of WoW. Half the population won’t ever interact with each other in a meaningful way outside of a few world PvP encounters while leveling or doing dailies. The individual Alliance & Horde populations are more-or-less at the same level as Westfall, which is receiving free transfers.
The idea that RP realms shouldn’t be messed with because of community considerations holds no value because it is an imaginary threshold that has repeatedly been crossed before now. Free transfers have previously been offered to and from Grobbulus in The Burning Crusade: Classic and earlier in Wrath: Classic. Additionally, free transfers to-and-from Grobbulus were allowed across realm types (i.e. Normal PvE, PvP & RP-PvP), so that argument no long holds any weight, as well.
TBC transfers Sept-Nov, 2022
Wrath Classic Transfers June, 2023
Consolidation of players onto a handful of realms is only going to exacerbate the already dwindling player-base on Grobbulus and Bloodsail Buccaneers.