I had the more fun today In classic than I have had in retail

[Switzy-stormreaver (Switzy)]

But this is why layering can be horrible
What if you dc’d, then logged on again and were different layers and never seen each other again

Aren’t we supposed to be assigned to a layer, as in layers being minirealms within a realm? So that when I log in, I am in the same layer no matter what?

Nope. You switch layers on login, continent transition, grouping, and sometimes randomly (may be a bug).

I’d kill for layering to be as static as what you described. That would remove the sharding/CRZ elements of layering and then I’d be 100% on board with layering.