I think layering SEEMS fine at first glance, but problems start to arise around the language they use when referring to it - no real certainty, “only the first couple of weeks, maybe a month; DEFINITELY gone by the end of Phase One.”
Based on the flexible terms used before the “definitely gone by end of Phase One”, it fills me with doubt that they will stick to this. As a user above stated, what if populations stay around 10k into Phase Two? then we all get suddenly jarred into the reality of the realms population, which we have been able to artificially avoid.
Without layering, sure we have a few problems at launch for the first few weeks, but we adjust! People realise certain servers are going to be packed forever( à la Blackrock from Vanilla) and start rerolling on other servers before they hit level 20/30. We then end up with healthy server populations, more spread out.
I get that this may not be a problem in the end if half the population go “You know what J, you’re right, I thought I wanted this…” and then never log on again, but this just seems flawed, and not in the spirit of Classic.
We are never going to get rid of all the problems, so let’s just have Vanilla, with all of the Vanilla problems, like the vanilla crusaders have been yearning for.