That’s not the truth but okay. I talked with my guild leader (Ashnod) about what was going on and I spoke to members of guilds like Rise and Reign. Those members I spoke to all gave me heroic speeches about how bad the Horde were and they would be sticking it out and not transferring. My guild leader said “we’ll be fine I think.”
The next day after most of got home from work, there was something like 10 guilds that had transferred and around 1/3 of our active raiders had transferred already. It was a panic thing, it wasn’t about being out numbered, dude we already were managing on that 35/65 server for a couple of months, leveling up on it, etc etc. We left because we knew the faction was going to DIE, and it did.
I played on a dead server for years on retail. I’m SUPER glad we didn’t stick around and end up in the same situation as you.