Ignore this point, doesn't matter

[Kozzae-doomhammer (Kozzae)]

Sharding out constantly in the middle of things

I’m not sure you’re going to get the answers you were hoping for in the support forums, as a fellow player I can only suggest putting in a bug report. The servers tend to spin shards and layers on demand and it would require development to adjust. I believe a developer tweeted some of this information, probably about Classic, but I wonder if the employ similar tech.