Well said. I never understand why folks are so against player choice in game version. At the end of the day, if your way of retaining players is holding them hostage to the one version of the game you play… they’re gonna leave anyways and they don’t want to be there.
When they leave to play a new version that’s offered, well yeah, that’s the version they wanted to play anyways.
Player choice is GOOD!
Ironically, on Grobbulus Era, we had a near full 40 people taking down KT this past Friday, days after Fresh released.
I took it as a good sign that we’ve recruited people who want to play vanilla/classic era on fully progressed servers for the long term. It helps that our server is dead, outside of the one alliance and one horde guild. You really have to want to play with us in our weird server, so I’m also not surprised we all stuck around 
Anyways, curious and want to join a community of vanilla wow lovers who aren’t chasing the latest fad every time blizzard releases it (no hate to those that do, player choice is a good thing)… come check us out Grobbulus Era - Searching for a Long Term Guild?
Also, please do NOT consolidate the servers. We love having Grobbulus RP PvP unconnected. If the servers ever got merged, we’d likely stop playing. I have no interest in playing on mega realm clusters like Whitemane! I have a Free Character Move ready to take me there (along with our entire server) and instead we’ve stayed put and grown our ranks here.
You will gain nothing by having servers merged. Anyone who wants to be on Mankirk or Whitemane clusters already has FCMs to go there for free with zero barrier.